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Jun 17, 2011
Scientologist accused of pressuring sex abuse victim — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Paul Bibby Courts
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
IT was a rare and at times dramatic public appearance by one of the most senior members of a global religious organisation that shrouds itself in secrecy. Surrounded by supporters, senior Scientologist Janice Meyer arrived at the Downing Centre Local Court yesterday, accused of pressuring an 11-year-old girl to lie about sex abuse within the church. Ms Meyer, who also goes by the name Jan Eastgate, left with relaxed bail restrictions that will allow her to travel to and from her ...
Jan 19, 2011
Flood of suggestions on how to solve disasters // Unfair aspersions against Scientology — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
[...] Unfair aspersions against Scientology It is disappointing that an article highlighting a charity's alleged breach of Fair Trading regulations should focus on non-existent links with the Scientology religion ("Refugee volunteers tell of Scientology influence", January 17). The article quotes the founder of the Australian League of Immigration Volunteers, Gary Taylor, as saying Scientology was one of a few religions he had spent some time with as a younger man. Beyond that, the only link to Scientology is based on ...
Jun 1, 2010
Industrial inspector probing Scientology — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
The industrial inspectorate has confirmed it is investigating the employment practices of the Church of Scientology. Fair Work Ombudsman Nicholas Wilson told a Senate estimates hearing it had looked into the controversial religious group but declined to give details. It is understood opposition frontbencher Eric Abetz wrote to the ombudsman in March with the idea of an inquiry. The inspectorate has subsequently interviewed Scientology members along the east coast of Australia to establish whether they are being properly remunerated for their ...
Mar 19, 2010
Not all grievances are created equal in politics — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Davis
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
When allegations emerged that shonky insulation installers operating under the Federal Government's home insulation program had exposed householders to the risk of fires and workers to injury or death, the Liberal and National Parties promptly referred the matter to a Senate inquiry. And when trade unions claimed that Australia Post was cutting its workers compensation costs by using company doctors to force injured employees back to work prematurely, the Labor Party was more than willing to ask a Senate committee to ...
Mar 9, 2010
School rapped over failure to declare Scientology links — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Anna Patty
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
A LEAFLET advertising the Athena School in Newtown has been referred to the state's consumer watchdog for allegedly obscuring the school's link to Scientology. The NSW Greens yesterday lodged a complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, claiming the leaflet represented false advertising and a potential breach of the Trade Practices Act. The Applied Scholastics logo, the education arm of Scientology, appears in the bottom corner of the leaflet, which includes the words ''education services and materials based on the ...
Feb 6, 2010
Church challenged to inquiry — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 23, 2010
'We are more than just this body and this life' — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 23, 2010
Scientology critic adds volume to inquiry call — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 23, 2010
Trouble in the house of Hubbard — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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Dec 29, 2009
Letters // Greens MP's claims about Scientology denied — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
You quote John Kaye's statement to Parliament about the former Scientology leader Marty Rathbun ("Intimidating and violent: defector", December 2). Mr Rathbun was removed from his position related to legal and public relations matters in the US in 1993, after having inexplicably deserted his post. He later returned and worked his way back into legal affairs. By 2002 his malfeasance became apparent and he was removed from any position of executive authority. The internal investigation leading to his removal also ...
Dec 2, 2009
Intimidating and violent: defector — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Nick O'Malley
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
A former Scientology leader says bullying is widespread in the church, writes investigations reporter Nick O'Malley. Coerced abortion, violence, intimidation and demands for ever greater "donations" have become unofficial Church of Scientology policy, beginning at its Florida head office and leaching around the world, the church's most senior defector has said. Marty Rathbun, who until 2004 was the church's second-most powerful man, answering only to the present leader, David Miscavige, said the church leadership was obsessed with destroying dissent and increasing ...
Dec 2, 2009
Schools linked to Scientology will get $1.6m — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Anna Patty
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
FEWER than 100 children will benefit from more than $1.6 million in Federal Government subsidies over four years to two schools strongly linked to the Scientology movement. The Athena School in Newtown will receive $751,519 in recurrent funding from the Federal Government for the 2009 to 2012 funding period. It has also been allocated $135,287 for a new library, $114,713 for primary classroom refurbishments and $50,000 for other refurbishments under the Rudd Government's Building the Education Revolution program. The Athena School ...
Feb 28, 2009
Shrinks in their sights — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Kate McClymont
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
COMING to a doctor's surgery near you: a sparky little DVD, saying "psychiatrists occupy the lowest rung of the medical profession", has been dispatched to GPs across Australia. The DVD says that psychiatrists are money-grubbing quacks who invent diseases so that they can become rich by prescribing drugs. Those evil dudes also kill 3000 people a month by prescribing psychotropic drugs, it says. While Tom Cruise's comely visage does not feature on the DVD, it is the product of that crazy ...
May 10, 2008
See ya, Tom: Packer quits Cruise's church — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Andrew Hornery
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
THE Church of Scientology has lost its grip on James Packer. The billionaire's closest friends have revealed that he has quietly distanced himself from Scientology, labelled a cult by some former members, as it faces international controversy about its anti-psychiatry stance. Members of Mr Packer's inner circle have confirmed that the billionaire, who had ranked as Scientology's wealthiest member in the world, was no longer undertaking Scientology courses and had slowly moved away from the religion, telling his closest friends he ...
Jan 17, 2008
Quackery's envoy: the gospel on Cruise — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 15, 2008
Publisher dumps Tom Cruise book — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 13, 2008
Bookshops won't stock Tom's tale — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 7, 2008
Scientologists 'threatened to blackmail Nic' — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Oct 16, 2007
Woman accused of murder denied bail — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
A WOMAN accused of stabbing to death her Scientologist father and teenage sister was suffering a psychotic episode and is likely to mount a mental illness defence, her doctor said. The 25-year-old, who cannot be named, is facing two counts of murder and a third of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to murder over a stabbing at her south-western Sydney home on July 5. The woman, who has been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder, allegedly fatally stabbed her 53-year-old father ...
Sep 5, 2007
Belgium charges Scientologists with extortion — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
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 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
Jul 10, 2007
Scientology cited in killings — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): David Braithwaite
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
THE young woman needed psychiatric care, and she knew it. She tried to get help twice, but her Scientologist parents had a religious objection to psychiatric intervention. They denied her the treatment she wanted, then dosed the 25-year-old with their own medicine, specially imported from the US. Finally, as her mental health worsened three weeks ago, they crumbled and let her take anti-psychotic drugs she had been prescribed. But it was too late. The unfolding tragedy came to its bloody head ...
Jul 9, 2007
'I just butchered my family' — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): David Braithwaite
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
The parents of a woman accused of murdering her father and sister apparently declined psychiatric treatment for her last year because of their Scientology beliefs, a report tendered in court states. And a police version of events tendered to the court outlined the nightmarish scenario faced by the family's neighbours following the alleged murders. The psychiatric report on the 25-year-old woman, who is also charged with committing grievous bodily harm on her mother at Revesby in Sydney's west last Thursday, was ...
Jul 8, 2007
Dead girl hoped to have a big family — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Angela Cuming
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
STABBING victim Kathryn Walicki, 15, loved her sister Linda "with all her heart", a family friend said yesterday. A touching tribute to Kathryn, who was killed along with the girl's father Michael, 52, at their Revesby home on Wednesday, described her as a "beautiful and gorgeous girl" who loved her family above all else. "She loved Linda with all her heart and it upset her like nothing else to see her in her condition," Bethany Derley said. Linda, 25, and Kathryn's ...
Jul 7, 2007
'It's not her fault, she's sick': mother's cry after family tragedy — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jordan Baker
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
IT WAS a picture of suburban harmony on a sunny afternoon: two neighbours, a man and a woman, both mowing their front lawns in a leafy part of Revesby. But in a horrific few minutes, order turned to chaos, leaving two members of a family dead, one seriously injured and another under arrest. As he mowed on Thursday, a man heard trouble next door. Soon his neighbour staggered into his yard with stab wounds to her stomach and back, crying for ...
Jul 6, 2007
Daughter held after two stabbing deaths — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jordan Baker, David Braithwaite
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
A woman walked to her neighbour's house in a quiet area of Revesby yesterday afternoon covered in blood and believed to have been stabbed in the chest. The woman had fled a crime scene and was asking her neighbours to call police. Officers arrived at an address on Hydrae Street soon after, about 4pm, and found an unspeakable scene. The woman's husband and teenage daughter had been stabbed to death. Another of the woman's daughters was wandering nearby streets, covered in ...
Mar 28, 2007
Unwitting high-schoolers lured to forum run by Scientologists — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Anna Patty
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
A HUMAN rights youth forum at Parliament House in Sydney promoted the views of the Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and was organised by a group linked to the Church of Scientology. In a kit given to students, Hubbard's photograph was more prominent than those of the human rights activists Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Thomas Jefferson. Hubbard's quotes were littered through the material. The Church of Scientology is the major sponsor of Youth for Human Rights Australia, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 14, 2000
Little choice but to give flicks the flick — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
May 17, 2000
Stay in touch: Critics go into battle — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
[...] If you run into a Scientologist today, don't do the usual thing of crossing the road/city/country to avoid them. Instead, look sympathetically on them, maybe even give them a hug of consolation, for we think there may be some mourning happening among the followers of L. Ron Hubbard. The first reviews are in for the multi-multi-million-dollar film based on one of L. Ron's off-the-planet science-fiction yarns (and no, we don't mean Dianetics), Battlefield Earth, and they don't make for pretty ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
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