Wednesday, November 18, 2009

scientology & nick xenu-phon

Comparing the 1996 and 2001 Australian Census:

  ------------------ --Females ---Males --Total
Aboriginal
 Traditional - ----------2480 ---2744 -----5224
 Agnosticism - ---------7354 ---10213 ---17567
 Atheism - -------------9219 ---15245 ---24464
 No religion -------- 1314735 -1542569 ---2857304
 Paganism - -----------6612 ----4020 ---10632
 Rastafarianism - -------167 -----899 ----1066 
 Satanism - ------------383 ----1415 ----1798
 Theosophy ----------- 965 -----662 -----1627
 Wiccan/Witchcraft - --6621- --2134 -----8755

 $cientology - ---------866 ----1166-   --2032

In the last census in 1996, $cientology had
1488 professed members, which was 0.01% of the population five years later, they have 2032 professed members, which is 0.01% of the population.

October 2003 - UPDATE: Australian Membership numbers collapsing!

Year - Number
1996 - 1488
2001 - 2032
2002 - 1027
2003 - 741

XENU

Senator Nicholas Xenophon

The Anderson Report is the colloquial name of the report of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology, an official inquiry into the Church of Scientology conducted for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was written by Kevin Victor Anderson QC and published in 1965.

In 1983, there was a ruling by the High Court of Australia, in Church of the New Faith v. Commissioner Of Pay-roll Tax. The court ruled that the government of Victoria could not deny the Church the right to operate in Victoria under the legal status of "religion" for purposes of payroll taxes.