http://www.smh.com.au/national/scientology-critic-adds-volume-to-inquiry-call-20100122-mqoq.html
http://www.smh.com.au/world/trouble-in-the-house-of-hubbard-20100122-mqoh.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/we-are-more-than-just-this-body-and-this-life-20100122-mqoj.html
Scientology critic adds volume to inquiry call
NICK O'MALLEY INVESTIGATIONS
January 23, 2010
A LEADING critic of Scientology is to travel to Australia to support Senator Nick Xenophon's campaign for an inquiry into the tax-exempt status of the church.
Gerry Armstrong was an ardent believer in the church and its founder, the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, until he began researching an authorised biography of his hero in 1980...
http://www.smh.com.au/world/trouble-in-the-house-of-hubbard-20100122-mqoh.html
Trouble in the house of Hubbard
NICK O'MALLEY
January 23, 2010
As pressure builds for a government inquiry into the Church of Scientology, Nick O'Malley investigates the group's increasingly troubled operations.
It should have been one of Scientology's greatest moments. One of Tom Cruise's, too. But the day he accepted Scientology's greatest honour, the Freedom Medal of Valour (for Achievement in the Field of Excellence), Cruise might just have crippled the church...
http://www.smh.com.au/national/we-are-more-than-just-this-body-and-this-life-20100122-mqoj.html
'We are more than just this body and this life'
JACQUELINE MALEY
January 23, 2010
YOU can talk to Scientologists for a long time without hearing them mention God.
Unlike other religions, Scientology posits no clearly identifiable supernatural deity, although if questioned on God, followers say they believe man is a spiritual being and that a higher power exists...