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Xenophon vows to pursue 'cults'

Title: Xenophon vows to pursue 'cults'
Date: Saturday, 13 March 2010
Publisher: The Age (Australia)
Author: Michael Bachelard
Main source: theage.com.au

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Nick Xenophon will re-write and re-submit his motion for a parliamentary inquiry into Scientology and similar organisations after the South Australian senator declared himself a “stubborn bastard” who would not give up on cult victims. Both major parties voted to defeat Senator Xenophon's motion last Thursday to inquire into introducing a public benefit test before religions could claim a tax exemption. But he said he had been encouraged by conversations with some Coalition MPs since the vote to believe they might ... [Read the rest at theage.com.au]