"Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference"

Belladonna · Mar 11, 2010

"Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference"

ABC News
Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference

Independent South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon will address a conference in Brisbane which claims to be the first specifically organised to help people who have left cults.

Senator Xenophon has been campaigning for an inquiry into the Church of Scientology and its tax exempt status.

In a speech in Parliament late last year he raised allegations of false imprisonment, coerced abortions and embezzlement of church funds, of physical violence and intimidation, blackmail and the widespread and deliberate abuse of information.

The Cult Information and Family Support Group Queensland's two-day conference starts in Brisbane today.

It will hear from American experts, and Senator Nick Xenophon will speak at the conference tomorrow.

The support group's spokeswoman Helen Pomery says former members of cults tend to suffer in silence.

"There are far more than we know about here in Australia," she said.

"Although we know that cults exist and we perhaps hear about a lot of the extreme ones from America they're certainly here in our midst in Australia."

She says workshops at the conference will allow them to connect with each other.

"Many of these people have never had any treatment before," Ms Pomery said.

"They've gone away, they've resumed their lives, they've shelved a lot of the issues, and this is the first time they really have a chance to start to process the pain that they've suppressed within themselves."

Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference - Seven News Queensland Yahoo 7 News

Both the Perth Now and the News.com.au versions of this article are 404'ing.
Also 404'ing: Herald Sun

Belladonna · Mar 12, 2010

Re: "Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference"

Can someone smarter than me figure out what happened to the 404'd articles?

Perth Now
senator xenophon - Perth Now Search

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/story/0,668,26839305-5005962,00.html

I think it was the one article that was meant to feed to all three sources.
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Articles that do work:
Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference

ANYTHING AUSTRALIAN: Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference

Anonymous · Mar 12, 2010

Re: "Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference"

SMH: Xenophon pushes for Scientology inquiry

HourglassMemory · Mar 12, 2010

Re: "Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference"

This is good news. And I'm glad Xenophon is attending.

theLastAnon · Mar 13, 2010

Re: "Senator to speak at Brisbane anti-cult conference"

Xenophon ramps up anti-Scientology crusade - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

An excerpt:

Picketing Parliament

Senator Xenophon said he was not put off buy the lack of support for the bill, and planned to reintroduce an amended version next week.

He called on attendees to travel to Canberra and tell their stories the MPs in person, saying a number of his colleagues had approached him after the bill was voted down to express their concerns.

"I think if we can get a group of people out the front of Parliament House and actually eyeball the politicians and knock on their doors on Wednesday and Thursday it would be very powerful," he said.

Interesting...

EDIT: Cocks. This was already posted in the "Senate Votes No" thread.

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