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Sep 12, 2010
Govt anti-drugs campaign's 'worrying' link to Scientology — Brisbane Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Kate Dennehy
Source: Brisbane Times
Concerns have been raised about a partnership between the Federal Government and a drug awareness group run by members of the controversial Church of Scientology. Corporate lawyer and researcher Grainne O'Donovan said the partnership could potentially be used by the church, through Drug Free Ambassadors Australia (DFAA), to try to recruit members from schools and youth groups. The DFAA-sponsored by Scientology - is a partner in the government's National Compact set up by former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd in March within ...
Mar 18, 2010
Scientology inquiry fails again — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s): Emma Rodgers
Source: Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The Government and Opposition have again blocked Independent Senator Nick Xenophon's moves for a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology. But the failed motion has not deterred Senator Xenophon's desire to probe the church's activities and he will move another motion when Parliament sits in May. Senator Xenophon wanted the Senate to examine whether the criminal code is adequate to deal with allegations of abuse and harassment made by former church members. He also wanted the inquiry to consider the ...
Mar 17, 2010
Ex-Scientologist 'pressured' to have abortions — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Source: Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
A woman who claims she was pressured by Scientologists to have two abortions has urged the Prime Minister to support an inquiry into the church. Janette Lang was a member of the Church of Scientology for 13 years from when she was 20 years old. She says she has been damaged by her involvement with the church and some years worked for a pay of just $2,000. Speaking at Parliament House in Canberra today, Ms Lang says she was pressured to ...
Mar 12, 2010
Scientology insider's nightmare childhood — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s): Sarah Collerton
Source: Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
A former Scientologist who says she was a "child slave" and alleges she saw a six-year-old boy chained up in a ship's hold is disappointed the Senate has blocked a full inquiry into the religious organisation. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has been calling for a full inquiry into the church since revealing claims of forced abortions and other abuses in Parliament last year. Keryn, 54, grew up in the church and has asked the ABC to identify her only by her ...
Mar 11, 2010
Scientology inquiry blocked in Senate — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: The Age (Australia)
Labor and the coalition have been accused of walking away from claims of abuse in the Church of Scientology, by blocking a Senate investigation into the tax-free status of religious groups. Independent senator Nick Xenophon on Thursday failed to win sufficient support for an inquiry into whether church groups should be subjected to a public benefit test, like that in the UK. His move was prompted by complaints from former members of the Church of Scientology, and "hundreds" more allegations since ...
Mar 10, 2010
Scientology puts lives at risk, says Australian of Year — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: The Age (Australia)
Australian of the Year Pat McGorry has backed calls for a Senate inquiry into Scientology, saying its views on mental health are putting lives at risk. "They are the deniers of the realities of mental illness, which I find incredibly irresponsible and dangerous," he told ABC Radio this morning. The renowned mental health expert has joined psychiatry boss Louise Newman and the Brain and Mind Institute's Ian Hickie in urging senators to vote for an inquiry. The Senate is expected to ...
Nov 22, 2009
Celebrities lead charge against Scientology — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Beaumont, Toni O'Loughlin
Source: The Observer (London, UK)
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member of the city's bar association was swept with a search wand. Photo IDs were checked. Mobile phones were taken from guests, who included the Hollywood star Tom Cruise. The occasion was a memorial service for Scientology's top legal adviser for ...
Nov 22, 2009
Scientologists 'targeting' schoolchildren — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s): Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Source: Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The New South Wales Government says the Church of Scientology is targeting Year 6 students using "marketing" material that claims to promote human rights. Education Minister Verity Firth has ordered principals not to distribute DVDs and booklets funded by the church and sent to schools by a group called Youth For Human Rights. The material outlines the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and quotes Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard on a list of "famous human rights leaders". Ms Firth only ...
Nov 22, 2009
Scientology targets young kids — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Nov 20, 2009
Church of Scientology: We're being vilified [Letter from Cyrus Brooks presented as an article] — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: The Age (Australia)
Senator Nick Xenophon is a lawyer. So he understands the difference between allegations and facts. Yet when he spoke in the Senate on Tuesday night he presented unsubstantiated allegations as if they were factual evidence of what he labelled "criminal" behaviour. He spoke under Parliamentary privilege, so as to avoid the risk of defamation. But in the sense that he presented spurious allegations as if it were evidence, he abused the privilege that Parliament offered him. Advertisement: Story continues below This ...
Nov 20, 2009
Science or fiction? — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s): Natasha Bita
Source: The Australian
EVEN for a religion started by a science fiction writer, the allegations levelled against the Church of Scientology in federal parliament this week sound stranger than fiction. Blackmail, cover-ups of child abuse, labour camps, embezzlement and coerced abortions are spelled out among the 53 pages of allegations by seven former Scientologists - some of whom had climbed high in the church hierarchy - tabled in the Senate. In what the church has decried as "an outrageous abuse of parliamentary privilege", independent ...
Nov 20, 2009
Scientology practices 'putting people at risk' — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Barney Zwartz
Source: The Age (Australia)
DANGEROUS dismissal of psychiatry and mental health problems must be part of a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology, a Melbourne cult counsellor said yesterday. Cult Counselling Australia director Raphael Aron said Scientologists put vulnerable people at risk by taking them off psychiatric drugs and treatment, instead treating them with vitamins and E-meter readings. Mr Aron supported Senator Nick Xenophon's call in Federal Parliament on Tuesday for a Senate inquiry into the Scientologists. The senator tabled letters citing forced abortions, ...
Nov 19, 2009
Former Scientologists allege abuse, intimidation — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Katharine Murphy, Misha Schubert
Source: The Age (Australia)
FORMER members of the Church of Scientology have made explosive allegations about forced abortions, child abuse and financial extortion, prompting calls for a parliamentary inquiry. Letters tabled by independent senator Nick Xenophon reveal claims of vulnerable people preyed on by a coercive and ruthless organisation that punished and shamed dissenters by physical incarceration, withholding food or intimidation. But the Church of Scientology hit back, arguing the claims came from seven ''disgruntled former members who use hate speech and distorted accounts of ...
Nov 19, 2009
Police take up Scientology complaints — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s): Natasha Bita
Source: The Australian
KEVIN Rudd raised concerns about the Church of Scientology yesterday, as NSW police began investigating complaints from seven former Scientologists. The Prime Minister said he intended to examine allegations against the church before deciding whether to back independent senator Nick Xenophon's demand for a Senate inquiry. Senator Xenophon told parliament on Tuesday that Scientology was a "criminal organisation" hiding behind religion. In response to that statement, Mr Rudd said the senator was making "grave allegations". "Many people in Australia have real ...
Nov 18, 2009
Australian News Coverage [A useful collection of TV media items re. Australian Senator Nick Xenophon] — XenuTV
Nov 18, 2009
Govt to move calmly on Scientology: Rudd — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Crystal Ja, Stephen Johnson
Source: The Age (Australia)
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has concerns about Scientology but says the government will exercise caution in examining allegations of abuse levelled against the church. Mr Rudd says the government will consider the need for a formal inquiry into the church - and its tax-free status. South Australian senator Nick Xenophon used parliamentary privilege on Tuesday to castigate the church, labelling it a criminal organisation hiding behind so-called religious beliefs. Advertisement: Story continues below Tabling letters from eight former followers, he said ...
Nov 18, 2009
Scientology accused of cover ups [duration: 7m 13s] — 2UE-954 (Australia)
Type: Radio
Source: 2UE-954 (Australia)
The Church of Scientology has rejected claims by Senator Nick Xenophon that it's involved in widespread criminal behaviour and abuse. John & Sandy reveal recent accusations with spokesperson Cyrus Brooks. [Embedded audio.]
Aug 12, 2009
Scientology defends reputation as Castlereagh St headquarters expands — Central (Sidney, Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Burton-Bradley
Source: Central (Sidney, Australia)
A FEW months ago, Sydney Council approved a development application for the Church Of Scientology’s Castlereagh St headquarters with little incident. It was somewhat of an anticlimax after the bitter opposition by residents and anti-Scientology activists, who argued the group would increase recruitment drives which “harass, and badger people to join” if the proposal was approved. Residents said they feared the church would use “menacing activity” to target people on Castlereagh and Bathurst streets for recruitment. The $12-million expansion involved adding ...
Oct 30, 2008
Openness could be Scientology's salvation — Livenews (Australia)
Sep 28, 2007
Scientologists given accused's psychiatric file — The Australian
Jul 14, 2007
Accused killer was denied treatment — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s): Elizabeth Wynhausen, Dan Box
Source: The Australian
THE Sydney woman accused of murdering her father and sister last week was discharged from a hospital psychiatric unit after a magistrate refused a request from medical staff that she receive further treatment. The 25-year-old woman from the southwest suburb of Revesby was admitted to Bankstown Hospital for involuntary psychiatric treatment late last year. The Australian can reveal that when the hospital sought an order to continue that treatment in the community, the visiting magistrate refused to grant this. The reasons ...
Jul 14, 2007
Religious mind games — The Australian
Jul 11, 2007
Church says science is fiction — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Michelle Cazzulino
Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia)
THE Church of Scientology was labelled "flat-earthers" yesterday as it defended its controversial stance on mental health. A psychiatric report tendered to Bankstown Local Court on Monday revealed a 25-year-old woman accused of killing her sister and father and seriously injuring her mother had been denied access to drugs because of her family's Scientology views. Australian Church of Scientology vice-president Cyrus Brooks described the organisation's link to the killings as a "red herring". "The woman was actually under the drugs, she ...
Jul 11, 2007
Church's no-drug doctrine 'risky' — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s): Sarah Elks
Source: The Australian
THE medical community has condemned the Church of Scientology for its "harmful" views on the treatment of mental illnesses following an alleged double murder by a woman who claims she was denied psychological drugs because of religious beliefs. The woman, who is charged with murdering her father and young sister, was allegedly denied the treatment by her parents because of their Scientology beliefs, a Sydney court heard on Monday. Scientology rejects psychiatry and psychology as means for treating mental illness. The ...
Jul 11, 2007
Scientologists blasted as flat-earthers — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Dylan Welch
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
SCIENTOLOGISTS were condemned yesterday as "flat-earthers", following statements in court that an alleged murderer was denied psychiatric treatment because of her family's Scientologist beliefs. The vice-president of the Australian Church of Scientology, Cyrus Brooks, told ABC radio the Scientology link to the killings was "a bit of a red herring". "The woman was actually under the drugs; she was on drugs at the time of the incident. She was also under the care of a psychiatrist … since January," Mr Brooks ...
Jul 11, 2007
Scientology the cult of disbelief — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Michelle Cazzulino
Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia)
ARTHUR and Lawana Beals knew their son Gary was in trouble. He had been tormented for years by voices in his head but he had always shunned their advice to seek psychiatric care. On March 15, 1989, the 32-year-old broke. Grabbing a butcher knife, he stabbed Lawana before turning the knife on Arthur. Bleeding from her injuries, Mrs Beals tried to defend her husband before fleeing the house and calling police. Arthur Beals was dead by the time authorities arrived. Three ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 10, 2007
Scientologists 'flat earthers' — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Dylan Welch
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Scientologists were condemned today as "flat earthers", following revelations in court that an alleged murderer was denied psychiatric treatment due to her family's Scientologist beliefs. Speaking on ABC Radio, Australian Church of Scientology vice-president Cyrus Brooks said the Scientology link to the killings was "a bit of a red herring". "The woman was actually under the drugs, she was on drugs at the time of the incident. She was also under the care of a psychiatrist ... since January," he said. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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