A Christmas Eve treat: Our man Down Under on Scientology's antipodean troubles in 2016 - 2016-12-24

A Christmas Eve treat: Our man Down Under on Scientology's antipodean troubles in 2016 December 24, 2016, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker

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How's this for a Christmas Eve miracle? We asked Bryan Seymour to give us a look back at 2016 for Scientology in Australia, and he was good enough to send us this dispatch.

In what has been one of Scientology's worst years since LRH dropped his body to continue his research on another planet somewhere, the church has fared poorly in Australia in 2016.

This is despite rushing the September opening of its new Australasian Advanced Ideal Org in Chatswood, just north of Sydney. Horrified neighbors report buses coming and going at all hours as "staff," mostly flown in from Taiwan, are put through the Scientology indoctrination process so they can give up everything they own. (See my report on the opening here.)

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{{cite news | author = Tony Ortega | title = A Christmas Eve treat: Our man Down Under on Scientology's antipodean troubles in 2016 | url = https://tonyortega.org/2016/12/24/our-christmas-eve-treat-our-man-under-on-scientologys-antipodean-troubles-in-2016/ | work = Underground Bunker | date = December 24, 2016 | accessdate = August 21, 2017 }}