As soon as he put down the script, Jeffrey Walker knew he wanted to work on the Disney+ series The Clearing. “It was one of those reads that you just couldn’t stop thinking about,” the show’s co-director says. “It affected…[Continue Reading...]
In 1987, the world learnt the disturbing story of Australian cult, The Family. On a remote lakeside compound on the outskirts of Melbourne, lived 28 children, raised in virtual isolation, away from the rest of the world. Groomed and abused,…[Continue Reading...]
A judge has urged for a case against a religious cult charged over the death of a schoolgirl to move quickly, as the group again refused legal representation. Fourteen members of the Toowoomba group, made up of three families known…[Continue Reading...]
A mother who allegedly beat her 2-year-old daughter to death with a piece of plastic pipe while living in a cult in rural Sydney in 1987 has pleaded not guilty to murder. Ellen Craig was extradited to Australia last year…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who died of blood loss after an elective hysterectomy was a Jehovah’s Witness who left conflicting requests about whether she would consent to a blood transfusion, an inquest has heard. Heather Winchester, 75, died at John Hunter Hospital…[Continue Reading...]
It is the anti-vax, anti-Establishment, anti-government group that is targeting local councils with a campaign of conspiracies and disruption so fierce some have had to shut their doors to the public. But, at first glance, My Place seems like any…[Continue Reading...]
It was the only thing generations of her family had ever known but, at 19, one woman revealed how one simple act led her to cut all ties with the fundamentalist sect she had grown up in. Laura McConnell, now…[Continue Reading...]
Former ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal and now convicted sex offender Malka Leifer will face a pre-sentence hearing in June. The 56-year-old mother of eight was found guilty of 18 charges relating to the sexual abuse of two Melbourne sisters, Dassi Erlich…[Continue Reading...]
Outside a cavernous warehouse on a chilly afternoon on Melbourne’s fringe, two men are praying, one laying his hands on the other. Surrounded by prime mover trucks being loaded to travel vast distances across the state, one of the men…[Continue Reading...]
Australian televangelist John McMartin, a former megachurch pastor and denominational leader, has reportedly been sentenced to an Intensive Correction Order involving three weeks of community service, after being found guilty of assault with an act of indecency. The order requires…[Continue Reading...]
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