Moderate Liberal Party members in Victoria will move this week for what they hope is a decisive blow against the party’s infiltration by an ultra-conservative religious network. Andrew Gardiner reports. An investigation by Nine Media and ABC journalists into the…[Continue Reading...]
A former principal of an Australian ultra-Orthodox Jewish School has been jailed for 15 years for sexually abusing two students. Malka Leifer was in April found guilty of 18 sexual offences against sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper. They include…[Continue Reading...]
Less than a year after the son of Exclusive Brethren’s global leader Bruce D. Hales purchased a $9.5 million mansion in Dural, a member of his flock has gone one better and smashed all house price records for the Hills…[Continue Reading...]
A woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter while involved in a cult three decades ago has pleaded not guilty. Ellen Rachel Craig, 60, allegedly killed Tillie Craig near Oberon in central NSW in July 1987. Police allege the toddler…[Continue Reading...]
The Queensland Department of Education has spoken out after a controversial religious group that says it can "free" people of autism, cancer and homosexuality promoted an indoctrination event at a Brisbane school. The Last Reformation (TLR), an evangelical Christian church…[Continue Reading...]
In a sermon at Universal Medicine's multimillion-dollar conference centre in northern New South Wales in 2017, Serge Benhayon thanked someone on stage for joining him with her "beautiful team". Tanya Curtis was the owner of Fabic, a behaviour therapy clinic…[Continue Reading...]
Tom Cruise is currently in Australia to promote his new film, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning. And during his trip Down Under, the Hollywood actor made sure he spent time with his friend and fellow Scientologist Kate Ceberano. Kate, 56, shared a…[Continue Reading...]
A long-running defamation case sparked by the ABC journalist Steve Cannane’s 2016 book on Scientology has ended with a confidential settlement and an apology. Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia included a range of claims about…[Continue Reading...]
A guided tour through the sinister caves of a cult compound in rural South Korea where members are sexually assaulted wasn’t quite what I’d envisaged for my first Spotlight assignment. But in a world-first, that’s where the crew and I…[Continue Reading...]
The first person to tell Elly Sapper that she was loved was Malka Leifer, her school principal and a woman highly revered in her ultra Orthodox Jewish community. Sapper was raised in a home devoid of love and affection, and…[Continue Reading...]
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