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SCIENTOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA

Scientology: cult of abuses

2011

Video: Scientology Cruise Ship Scandal (aca win - 2011.11.29)

Vidéo: Happée à l'âge de 6 ans et emprisonnée des années durant par la scientologie. Témoignages de Valeska Paris et Ramana Dienes-Browning (abc.net.au - 28 novembre 2011)

Video: An Australian woman has alleged she spent years imprisoned on the Church of Scientology's cruise ship, The Freewinds (abc.net.au - November 28, 2011)

Video: Australia:Testimony of Lana Mitchell (Today Tonignt- November 2 - 2011)

Video: Chris Guider: «David Miscavige ordered me to beat the guy» (aca-win - September 23, 2011)

Vidéo: Témoignage de Chris Guider: «David Miscavige est un homme violent et toxique» (Lateline - 23 septembre 2011)

Vidéo: Testimony of Chris Guider: «Scientology leader branded 'violent and toxic'» (Lateline - September 23, 2011)

Church of Scientology 'has to conform to labour laws' (thecityweekly.com.au - 17 September 2011)

Video: The Scientology has underpaid its workers / Testimony of Jordan Anderson (Lateline - Sept. 16, 2011)

Download the FWO Statement of Findings here (pdf - 4Mb)

L'église de Scientologie «doit se conformer aux lois du travail» (thecityweekly.com.au - 17 septembre 2011)

Video: Law firm Slater and Gordon is planning to take a class action against the Church of Scientology over claims the church has underpaid its workers (Lateline - Sept 15, 2011) Duration: 3min 35sec

Un rapport préliminaire soulève la question de l'esclavage en scientologie (news.com.au - 13 septembre 2011)

Ombudsman draft raises Scientology slavery (news.com.au - September 13, 2011)

Church of Scientology faces backpay bill to former members (Sunday Herald Sun - August 28, 2011)

Video: The Ex-Files - Testimonies of Hana Eltringham Whitfield, Joe Reaiche, Liz Anderson, James Anderson, Jordan Anderson, Claire Headley, Marc Headley, Laura De Crescenzo, Peta O'Brien (abc.net.au - 2010)

Video: Story on how the cult of cientology is fraudulently avoiding taxation in the UK.... and the government is not doing much. (Today Tonight - July 28 2011)

Senior Scientology Figure Criminally Charged After Allegedly Telling Minor To Lie About Abuse (jonathanturley.org - June 1, 2011)

La dirigeante de la Commission scientologue des droits de l'Homme (CCDH - CCHR) est accusée d'avoir cacher un abus sexuel (theaustralian.com.au - May 31, 2011)

Video: Témoignage de Carmen Rainer: «Lorsque j'avais 11 ans la scientologie a couvert des abus sexuels de mon beau-père scientologue» / Police allege Jan Eastgate threatened and intimidated a girl into providing false statements (Today Tonight - May 31, 2011)

Scientology “Human Rights” Leader Arrested (abc.net.au -May 31 2011)

Video: Top Scientologist charged with perverting course of justice (ABC - May 31 2011)

Scientologist charged for 'intimidating' alleged sex abuse victim (theaustralian.com.au - May 31, 2011)

Video: Australian Charities Commission Approved (Today Tonight - may 26, 2011)

Heat on ACCC over Scientologist TV star (The Daily Telegraph - May 5, 2011)

Une école scientologue à Melbourne fait payer 6171 dollars par an par élève et n'en dépense que 3727 ! (theage.com.au - 24 mars 2011)

MELBOURNE: A chool linked to the Church of Scientology receiving thousands of dollars in government funding (theage.com.au - March 24, 2011)

Nan McLean: A video about Scientology to send to Senator Xenophon (xenutv.com/blog - February 26, 2011)

Video transcript

Test for tax free status

Une propagande de la scientologie interdite en Australie (maxisciences.com - 14 janvier 2011)

2010

L'état australien accusé de soutenir une secte (theage.com.au - 13 septembre 2010)

State accused of supporting sect (theage.com.au - septembrer 13, 2010)

Audio: Inquiry recommends a national charities commission (abc.net.au - September 8, 2010)

Australian Senate Inquiry reports (Today Tonight Release Special - September 7, 2010)

Bipartisan support for charities commission (abc.net.au - September 7, 2010)

Australie: une enquête fédérale va être diligentée sur la scientologie (abc.net.au - 7 Septembre 2010)

Australian Senate Committee recommends formation of Charities Comm (en.wikinews.org/ - September 8, 2010)

Charities may have to 'open books' to prove they benefit community (theaustralian.com.au/ - September 9, 2010)

Call for independent charities commission (theage.com.au - September 13, 2010)

University Prof Patrick McGorry is targeted by Scientology church (Sunday Herald Sun - August 22, 2001)

Video: Mike Rinder speaks out (Today Tonight - July 22, 2010)

'Ruthless' Scientology condemned in tax debate (smh.com.au - June 29, 2010)

Inquiry into the Tax Laws Amendment (Public Benefit Test) Bill 2010 - Public Hearings and Transcripts - (Canberra, ACT - June 28 & 29, 2010)

La Scientologie évite de payer l'impôt au Royaume-Uni en prétendant qu'elle est une succursale d'Australie du Sud (Today Tonight - June 22 - 2010)

Video: Scientologists hide their money in Australia (Today Tonight - June 22 - 2010)

Scientology 'offended' by tax evasion accusation (adelaidenow.com.au - June 22, 2010)

Scientology probed over underpayment claims

Video: Ombudsman probes 'underpaid' Scientology staff

(Lateline - ABC News - June 2, 2010)

Testimonies:

  • Video: Scientology: Amy Scobee speaks out Inside Scientology, superstar Tom Cruise is regarded as its most dedicated follower. The mystery is why he never joined its most elite unit. Now, a former top-ranking defector who was just a teenager when recruited into Scientology says she knows why. (au.todaytonight- April 26, 2010)
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Scientology accused of torture and forced abortions

Video: Scientology under Siege
 (A Current Affair - 9News - March 9, 2010) 28MB

A Current Affair did a report about Scientology, including excerpts from last night's ABC Four Corners program about allegations of severe and systematic abuse within Sciento- logy organisations.

Australian setback:

Inquiry into the Church of Scientology:

Former scientologists speak out:

Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse:

2009

No precedent for the Senate:

Infiltration:

Scientology Exposed:

A criminal church:

Torture en Australie:

Video: Témoignages de victimes de la Scientologie en Australie: nombreux abus révélés (parjures, morts suspectes, campagne de chantage, avortements forcés et vente sous contrainte) (19th Nov, 2009)

La Scientologie accusée de torture en Australie (Le Monde.fr - 18 novembre 2009)

Scientology faces allegations of torture in Australia (guardian.co.uk - 18 November 2009)

Transcription du discours du sénateur australien Nick Xenophon (anonymousmontreal.blogspot.com - Nov. 19, 2009)

Church of Scientology accused of torture and forced abortions (timesonline.co.uk- November 19, 2009)

Former Scientologists urged to speak out (abc.net.au - Nov 18, 2009)

Independent senator Nick Xenophon has accused the Church of Scientology of being a criminal organisation (AAP - Nov 18, 2009)

Australie: Le sénateur Nick Xenophon demande que l'exemption d'impôts de la secte soit revue, et rappelle que la scientologie est impliquée dans toute sorte de délits et crimes, tels séquestration, avortements imposés, escroquerie sur les fonds de l'église, violence physique, intimidation/harcèlement et chantage.

Rapport officiel du sénat australien, voir scientologie page 73:

CCDH - CCHR:

2008

Narconon / Scientology Exposed:

Victoria: Scientologists keep tabs on Neighborhood Watch chief (The Age - 6 May 1991)

La jeune femme qui avait assassiné ses parents scientologues déclarée irresponsable (abc.net.au - July 28, 2008)

Murder accused mentally ill, court told (abc.net.au - July 28, 2008)

Australian Anonymous Movement lauches Operation Anonville. A National Protest Against the Church of Scientology (pr-inside.com - July 23, 2008)

La scientologie se démet avant un procès (pacificmagazine.net - July 19, 2008)

Scientology Official Dismantles Displays To Avoid Court Tussle (pacificmagazine.net - July 19, 2008)

La scientologie interdite dans les écoles fijiennes (Radio Australia - 20 juin 2008)

La scientologie a été interdite par le gouvernement des îles Cook (radioaustralia.net.au - 16 juin 2008)

La propagande irrationnelle de la scientologie contre la psychiatrie fait fuir le milliardaire australien James Parker, un ami de Tom Cruise / James Packer quits Scientology (scopical.com - May 10, 2008)

Packer quits Scientology (blogs.abc.net.au - May 10, 2008)

THE Church of Scientology has lost its grip on James Packer (smh.com.au - May 10. 2008)

TWO MORE Scientology DEATHS in Australia. The girl's parents had denied her access to psychiatric medication due to their Scientology beliefs (Youtube - April 14, 2008)

Testimony of David Graham: Why I fled Scientology / Pourquoi je me suis sauvé de la scientologie (mh.com.au - April 13, 2008)

Ex-scientologist Larry Brennan attended the March 15 protest in Boston, where an interview with several Anon was scored

Anonymous protest Perth: March 15 2008 (YouTube - march 15, 2008)

Publisher Pan Macmillan is refusing to release Tom Cruise (abc.net.au - January 15, 2008) English

Un éditeur australien ne veut pas publier le bouquin sur Tom Cruise/scientologie par crainte des procès (abc.net.au - January 15, 2008) English

2007

Enemy of psychiatry - A recent family tragedy has focused attention on the Church of Scientology’s controversial stance against psychiatric care (australiandoctor.com.au - 14-Aug-2007)

A Current Affair denies it's 'soft on Scientology' (news.com.au - May 18, 2007)
 

Enemy of psychiatry

A recent family tragedy has focused attention on the Church of Scientology ’ s controversial stance against psychiatric care. By Heather Wiseman

Source : http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/news/16/0c04f116.asp
 
WHEN a Sydney court was told last month that a 25-year-old woman stabbed three family members, killing her father and sister, the Church of Scientology was thrust into the media spotlight.

 A medical report filed in court alleged the woman was mentally ill, but stopped taking prescription medication and receiving treatment, apparently because of her family’s Scientology beliefs. The court also heard that she resumed taking the medication prior to the attacks.

What ultimately led to the tragedy is for the courts to decide. But the case has renewed debate about Scientology’s objection to psychiatric care.

Professor Ian Hickie, executive director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney, is concerned that Scientology may influence vulnerable individuals and says the negative health implications of this have never been adequately addressed.

“That, from a medical point of view, needs to be confronted,” he says.

“Individuals, particularly vulnerable individuals, may be taken in and avoid treatment.”

It’s a concern that is not new. The religion was banned for some years in Victoria after a 1965 State Government-commissioned inquiry that said Scientologists were conditioned to avoid psychiatrists and this “may have tragic results”.

Today, the Church of Scientology says there are constant “horror stories” of people who are adversely affected by psychiatric medication “who repeatedly report their inability to get anybody to listen or take notice”.

Professor David Copolov, professor of psychiatry at Monash University in Melbourne, rejects Scientology’s view that psychiatric drugs are dangerous and ineffective.

“For Scientology to say there are no data to support [psychiatric medication’s] usefulness is clearly incorrect,” says Professor Copolov, who was the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee’s psychiatric expert from 1992 to 2000.

“All medications have side effects, but the balance between efficacy and side effects [with psychiatric medications] is hugely in favour of efficacy.

“We have to counter this anti-psychiatric rhetoric. To the extent that it discourages seriously ill people from seeking and receiving treatment it could be very dangerous.”

Public affairs director for the Church of Scientology in AustraliaMs Virginia Stewart told Australian Doctor that the church does “not agree with psychiatric drugs for a myriad of scientifically proven reasons”.

“It is not based on belief, but on fact, that drugs do not resolve mental problems,” she says.

“They cover them up and in doing so often cause great harm, including a worsening of the original feelings of depression, resulting in violence or suicide.”

She says this is why the church, which has 250,000 members in Australia and 10 million internationally, founded a separate organisation called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) in 1969. The Australian Scientology web site explains that the CCHR’s role is “to expose and bring to an end the brutalizing of individuals in the name of ‘mental health’”.

The CCHR claims to operate in more than 100 countries and is an active force in Australia, making submissions to government inquiries, forming relationships with other interest groups, issuing press releases and lobbying politicians.

It claims to have exposed the Chelmsford PrivateHospital’s notorious deep sleep therapy and is now lobbying strongly against pregnant women and children receiving ECT, against involuntary psychiatric treatment and the “drugging of children” for ADHD.

The Australian CCHR web site says: “Recent studies show that children who take psychiatric stimulants for ‘ADHD’ are 46% more likely to commit one felony, and 36% more likely to commit two or more felonies. Instead of overcoming supposed learning difficulties, these children are at risk of moving toward a life of crime.”

A string of sensational messages flash across the web site, borrowing spelling and facts from the international site: “There are 374 ways for psychiatrists to label you mentally ill; Every 75 seconds another innocent citizen is encarcerated [sic] by psychiatry; 2 million children and adolescents are on antidepressants that can induce violent or suicidal behaviour.”

The Australian site describes ECT as one of the “two main treatments used by psychiatrists today” and says its effectiveness relies on “overwhelming and damaging the individual”.

Professor Patrick McGorry, professor of youth mental health at the University of Melbourne, says the CCHR presents a very distorted picture of modern psychiatry.

“They’re projecting … that psychiatry as a profession would endorse widespread use of Ritalin, involuntary treatment and ECT,” he says.

“All of these things we have cautious views about. They’re misrepresenting psychiatry’s position and modern psychiatry’s perspective.”

He says the CCHR uses evocative issues such as ECT to more deeply entrench a One Flew Over the Cuckoo ’ s Nest version of psychiatry, which is “not what most people’s experience of psychiatry is”.

Professor McGorry says there is great potential for CCHR fear-mongering to cause harm if it leads to a delay in people receiving treatment.

He says both the CCHR and Scientology “haven’t been tackled adequately”despite their beliefs having potential to interfere with vulnerable people’s health care.

“It is very damaging and yet they’ve not been brought to account for that behaviour,” he says.

“Great harm … can flow from the stance they have taken.”

Executive director of the CCHR’s National Office for Australia Ms Shelley Wilkins rejects that psychiatrists are cautious.

“It cannot be proven that anyone has any of psychiatry’s disorders and their DSMactually says, for example, that there are no laboratory tests for ADHD or schizophrenia, so caution does not come into it. Any use of Ritalin, involuntary commitment or ECT is therefore based on a fraudulent diagnosis and is abuse,” Ms Wilkins says.

In response to the suggestion of CCHR fear-mongering, she says psychiatry “causes fear with its brutal treatments and dangerous drugs”.

“People do not want to seek help from psychiatry because their treatments can cause great harm and even death and they fear being involuntarily detained and treated,” she says.

“CCHR is dedicated to informing the public about the dangers of psychiatric treatments, and as a result lives are saved.”

Chief psychiatrist for NSW Associate Professor John Basson acknowledges widespread concerns in Australiaabout Ritalin being overprescribed.

He also says some US courts have deemed that Prozac can make some people violent. “These circumstances seem to be rare, but they are to be concerned about,” he says.

But Professor Basson says the CCHR uses extreme, negative examples from the world literature to evidence its stance against psychiatric medication.

“It uses extreme examples to make an argument about the general use of the drug,”he says.

“A lot of adults take these drugs and get relief from serious and debilitating circumstances.”

He says those who are influenced by the CCHR “might choose not to go and get help. They may try and do without and become very sick indeed”.

Professor Basson says there is a danger in not treating mental illnesses that recur.

“Those that recur would recur much more seriously. The [risks] in not doing anything are very bad indeed.”

He says psychotic episodes can cause people with schizophrenia to lose key non-verbal communication skills and experience a degree of emotional blunting.

“It damages people’s capacity to have good intimate relationships,” he says.

“It could lead to long-term disability for people, which we feel [with treatment] we could avoid.”

Professor Basson says poor compliance is already a problem, with about 50% of mentally ill patients not taking prescribed medication.

“There is a danger [the CCHR] encourages that percentage to stay high when we are trying to reduce it.”
 

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