41.The Anderson Report, State of Victoria, p. 35.
42.ibid.
43.ibid., p. 26.
44.Testimony of John Campbell, an officer of the Victorian State Audit Office, Anderson Inquiry.
45.For more on company structure of Melbourne HASI at the time see The Anderson Report, p. 27.
46.Testimony of John Campbell, an officer of the Victorian State Audit Office, Anderson Inquiry.
47.The Anderson Report, pp. 32–33.
48.Letter from Malcolm Allen to Max and Jenny Anderson, 30 May 1963.
49.The Anderson Report, pp. 37–38.
50.Peter Crundall, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 854.
51.ibid.
52.Department of Immigration memo, Rev. and Mrs Farrell – permanent stay – written by WK Brown, 9 April 1956.
53.Pat Krenik – correspondence with author (a memo from the Department of Immigraton on 22 March 1956 says the Farrells were on a joint salary of £10 per week, plus rent, electricity and gas).
54.Letter from Harold Holt to the Secretary of the Department of Immigration, 21 February 1956.
55.ibid., 15 March 1956.
56.Letter from the Secretary of the Department of Immigration to Harold Holt Immigration, 17 April 1956.
57.File note 10 April 1956, Department of Immigration memo, Rev. and Mrs Farrell – permanent stay.
58.AL Nutt (Department of Immigration Acting Secretary) letter to Australian Embassy in Washington, 8 August 1957.
59.Department of Immigration memo, Rev. and Mrs Farrell – permanent stay – written by WK Brown, 9 April 1956.
60.Department of Immigration File No. n57/4119 – they were on aircraft N1028V from Sydney.
61.Photo of Scientology Centre in the Sydney Truth, 21 August 1955, shows the HASI banner.
62.Marcus Tooley, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 7354a.
63.ibid., p. 7355.
64.ibid., p. 7398.
65.‘Dux of the quacks’, Sydney Truth, 21 August 1955.
66.Marcus Tooley, op. cit., p. 7356.
67.ibid.
68.Peter Gillham interview with author.
69.Roger Boswarva correspondence with author.
70.Marcus Tooley, op. cit., p. 7354.
71.ibid., p. 7365.
72.Letter from Rhona Swinburne to Marcus Tooley, 3 March 1959.
73.Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Rhona Swinburne, 19 February 1959.
74.Letter from Rhona Swinburne to Marcus Tooley, 3 March 1959.
75.For list of franchises see Communication, Church of Scientology, February 1960.
76.Roger Meadmore interview with author.
77.ibid.
78.ibid.
79.ibid.
80.Phillip Wearne, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 1680.
81.Doug Moon, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 2113.
82.L. Ron Hubbard, Welcome Address Melbourne Congress, 7 November 1959.
83.ibid.
84.ibid.
85.Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1987, p. 236.
86.Church of Scientology: www.bridgepub.com/store/catalog/melbourne-congress-lectures.html
87.David Miscavige at the opening of the Ideal Scientology Church in Melbourne, 29 January 2011, as reported in Freedom Magazine, vol. 12, no. 1, 2011.
88.Church of Scientology: www.bridgepub.com/store/catalog/melbourne-congress-lectures.html
89.Doug Moon, Anderson Inquiry transcript, pp. 2114–2115.
90.ibid., p. 2115.
91.Phillip Wearne, undated note to L. Ron Hubbard – exhibit 291, Anderson Inquiry.
92.Phillip Wearne, letter to L. Ron Hubbard, 20 November 1959, Exhibit 292, Anderson Inquiry.
Chapter 6
1.Rupert Murdoch tweet, 1 July 2012.
2.ibid., 2 July 2012.
3.Business Wire, 16 July 1996.
4.Associated Press, Washington, 1 October 2001.
5.Sandra Hall, Tabloid Man: The Life and Times of Ezra Norton, Fourth Estate, Sydney, 2008, p. 178.
6.George Munster, A Paper Prince, Penguin, Ringwood, 1987.
7.Cyril Pearl, Wild Men of Sydney, W. H. Allen, London, 1958, p. 130.
8.Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October 1898.
9.Mark Day email correspondence with author.
10.Rupert Murdoch, 1972 Arthur Norman Smith Memorial Lecture in Journalism.
11.ibid.
12.Owen McKenna email correspondence with author.
13.Owen McKenna interview with author.
14.Melbourne Truth, 2 December 1961.
15.ibid.
16.Alan Gill, The Turbulent Years of Doctor Rumble: http://compassreview.org/autumn12/4.pdf
17.Australian Dictionary of Biography – Leslie Audoen Rumble.
18.ibid.
19.P O’N of Bexley questions and Rumble’s answer republished in The Tribune on 27 October 1960, and also The Anderson Report, Chapter 28.
20.The Tribune, 27 October 1960.
21.HCO Manual of Justice, HCO, London, 1959.
22.ibid.
23.Peter Williams letter to Dr Rumble, 29 September 1960 – Exhibit 92, Anderson Inquiry.
24.Letter to The Tribune from Melbourne HASI, 3 November 1960.
25.Melbourne Truth, 2 December 1961.
26.Special Project Australia, HCO Bulletin, 24 July 1960.
27.ibid.
28.ibid.
29.The Anderson Report, Chapter 22.
30.Melbourne Truth, 11 June 1960.
31.The Geelong Advertiser, 7 June 1960.
32.ibid.
33.Geelong population – 1961 Australian Bureau of Statistics Data.
34.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to Inspector Bent, 29 June 1960.
35.ibid.
36.Hubbard’s Naval record of stations: www.spaink.net/cos/LRH-bio/servrcrd.htm
37.Rupert Murdoch, 1972 Arthur Norman Smith Memorial Lecture in Journalism.
Chapter 7
1.KD Gott, ‘Mr Wearne’s Legions of Space’, Nation, 1 July 1961.
2.The Truth, 8 May 1955.
3.The Sun, 7 March 1955.
4.Phillip Wearne, Anderson Inquiry transcript, 1987–1987a.
5.ASIO report from Victorian Regional Director on Probe magazine, 30 January 1962.
6.National Archives of Australia – war record of Phillip Bennett Wearne.
7.Daniel Best, The Strange, Strange Story of Phillip Wearne: http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com.au/
8.ibid.
9.Phillip Wearne, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 1638.
10.ibid., p. 1639.
11.ibid., p. 1640.
12.ibid.
13.ibid., p. 5272.
14.ibid., p. 1646.
15.Paulette Cooper, The Scandal of Scientology, Chapter 17: www.xenu.net/archive/books/tsos/sos-17.html
16.Phillip Wearne, op. cit., p. 1645.
17.Jon Atack, The Total Freedom Trap: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard, Chapter 13: www.xenu.net/archive/techniques/
18.Margery Wakefield, Understanding Scientology: The Demon Cult, LuLu, Raleigh, p. 128: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us.html
19.Phillip Wearne, op. cit., p. 1646.
20.ibid., p. 1648.
21.ibid.
22.ibid., p. 1649.
23.ibid., p. 1674.
24.ibid., p. 1673.
25.KD Gott, ‘Mr Wearne’s Legions of Space’, Nation, 1 July 1961.
26.ibid.
27.Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia 2001.
28.Letter from Doug Moon to L. Ron Hubbard, Exhibit 199, Anderson Inquiry.
29.ibid.
30.Roger Meadmore interview with author.
31.Communication, Church of Scientology, June 1960, vol. 2, No. 6.
32.The special zone plan: the Scientologist’s role in life, HCO Bulletin, 23 June 1960.
33.HCO Policy Letter, 15 August 1960, Dept. of Govt. Affairs.
34.ibid.
35.ibid.
36.An
derson Inquiry transcript, pp. 4475–4476.
37.The Anderson Report, Chapter 28.
38.Reality, April 1961. p. 25.
39.Probe, vol. 1, no. 1, 1961.
40.Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4790.
41.Phillip Wearne letter to Richard King, 28 July 1961, Exhibit 289, Anderson Inquiry.
42.Phillip Wearne, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4472.
43.ibid., p. 4750.
44.Undated letter from Doug Moon to L. Ron Hubbard, Exhibit 199, Anderson Inquiry.
45.Phillip Wearne, op. cit., p. 1985.
46.ibid., p. 4472.
47.ibid., p. 1707.
48.ibid., p. 1710.
49.ibid.
50.Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1987, p. 247.
51.ibid., pp. 247–248.
52.Jon Atack, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, p. 172.
53.Russell Miller, loc. cit.
54.Stop Press – 11 January 1963 from HCO Melbourne, The Anderson Inquiry, Exhibit 301.
55.This term was used in the local journal Communication in November 1960 and April 1961.
56.Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Charles Spry, received by ASIO on 20 June 1960.
57.See all 1963 editions of Communication.
58.Communication, Church of Scientology, June 1963.
59.Phillip Wearne testimony, Anderson Inquiry.
60.Earliest example I could find was on 9 May 1962. Phillip Wearne wrote to Elizabeth Williams: ‘I am still awaiting a reply regarding the refund of processing fees.’ He also asks about a refund in a letter to Peter Williams, 6 June 1962, copied to Hubbard this series of letters, Exhibit 308, Anderson Inquiry.
61.Phillip Wearne letter to the HASI Registrar, 8 April 1962.
62.Phillip Wearne letter to Peter Williams, copied to Hubbard, 6 June 1962.
63.ibid.
64.Phillip Wearne, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 1964.
65.Phillip Wearne telegram to L. Ron Hubbard, 14 April 1963, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 1733.
66.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to Phillip Wearne, 26 April 1963, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 1734.
67.In a letter from Doug Moon to Hubbard on 5 Nov. 1963, he reminds Hubbard: ‘I advised you some months ago to give Wearne his money back … had you listened to me in the first place instead of the idiot advisers you employ in this part of the world the parliamentary attack would probably not have occurred.’
68.Letter from Phillip Wearne to L. Ron Hubbard, 16 May 1963, Anderson Inquiry transcript, pp. 1734–1735.
69.Reality, vol. 7, no. 1, 1966.
70.ASIO Headquarters memorandum to all regional offices no. 7813, 22 June 1962.
71.Department of Supply – Security Branch memorandum for ASIO, 16 April 1956.
72.According to ASIO Minute paper 23 January 1969.
73.Report by LF Dunn compiled by Victorian Police for the Department of Immigration.
74.‘Writ against Scientology association’, The Age, 8 August 1963.
75.Terms of Phillip Wearne’s settlement tendered at the Anderson Inquiry, p. 4453.
76.Phillip Wearne later admitted this at both the Anderson Inquiry and in his publication Reality.
77.Australian Dictionary of Biography – Jack Galbally.
78.Victorian Legislative Council Hansard, 19 November 1963, p. 2127.
79.Comments from a statement issued by Peter Williams, Denny Gogerly and the staff of HASI, Melbourne, 20 November 1963.
80.ibid.
81.The Anderson Report, Chapter 1.
82.Undated Doug Moon letter to L. Ron Hubbard written some time between 26 November and 10 December 1963.
83.‘Labor Scientology Bill in council – govt to oppose it’, The Age, 27 November 1963.
84.Kangaroo Court, Hubbard College of Scientology, Church of Scientology of California, 1967, p. 3.
85.Telegrams sent to Arthur Rylah Chief Secretary and Rupert Hamer Assistant Chief Secretary (and future Premier of Victoria) on 22 November 1963.
86.Enquiry Rumour UK, Office of L. Ron Hubbard, 9 February 1966.
87.Letter from Mary Sue Hubbard to Yvonne and Peter Gillham, 17 February 1964.
88.Peter Gillham Snr interview with author.
89.ibid.
Chapter 8
1.Author interview with Janis Grady (née Gillham).
2.The Anderson Report, State of Victoria, 1965, Chapter 1.
3.Peter Gillham Snr interview with author.
4.‘Joined Sect; Stayed Bald’, Sunday Truth, 22 March 1964.
5.The Anderson Report, loc. cit.
6.ibid.
7.ibid.
8.ASIO minute on the Committee for Mental Health and National Security paper, 26 January 1966.
9.Phillip Wearne, Anderson Inquiry transcript, pp. 4457–4458.
10.ibid., p. 4457.
11.ASIO report, Regional Director Victoria, 4 May 1964.
12.Letter from Doug Moon to L. Ron Hubbard, 9 July 1963.
13.ibid., 5 November 1963.
14.Undated Doug Moon letter to L. Ron Hubbard sent some time between when the inquiry was announced on 26 November 1963 and before Hubbard responded on 10 December 1963.
15.Doug Moon, Anderson Inquiry transcript, pp. 2134–2135, 2138.
16.ibid., p. 2123.
17.ibid., p. 2140.
18.ibid., pp 2124, 2126 and Kangaroo Court, Hubbard College of Scientology, Church of Scientology of California, 1967, p. 11.
19.Doug Moon, op. cit., p. 2306.
20.ibid., p. 2159.
21.ibid.
22.ibid., p. 2162.
23.ibid., p. 2325.
24.Richard King, Anderson Inquiry transcript, pp. 6837–6841.
25.Terms of witness Doug Moon making statutory declaration unfavourable to Phillip Wearne Exhibit 256, Anderson Inquiry.
26.Undated Doug Moon letter to L. Ron Hubbard sent some time between when the Inquiry was announced on 26 November 1963 and before Hubbard responded on 10 December 1963.
27.Richard King, op. cit., p. 6843.
28.Doug Moon, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 2323a.
29.ibid., p. 2347.
30.Roger Boswarva interview with author and see Anderson Inquiry transcript p. 4900.
31.Letter from Max Anderson to the Secretary of the Board of Anderson Inquiry, 2 December 1963, Exhibit 305.
32.ibid., 12 February 1964, Exhibit 305.
33.Max Anderson, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4727.
34.ibid., p. 4903.
35.ibid., p. 4902.
36.For example, John Simpkin – Max Anderson, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4903.
37.Max Anderson, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4728.
38.ibid., and pp. 4904–4905.
39.Roger Boswarva interview with author.
40.Roger Boswarva, Conjunction of Stars, unpublished manuscript.
41.ibid.
42.Roger Boswarva interview with author.
43.Roger Boswarva, Conjunction of Stars, unpublished manuscript.
44.ibid.
45.Professor Malcolm Macmillan email to author.
46.ibid.
47.Simon Cooke, A Meeting of Minds: The Australian Psychological Society and Australian Psychologists 1944–1994, Australian Psychological Society, Carlton South, VIC, 2000, p. 106.
48.Professor Malcolm Macmillan’s notes provided to author.
49.The Anderson Report.
50.The Age, 3 June 1964.
51.Letter from Peter Williams to L. Ron Hubbard, 26 June 1964, Exhibit 294, Anderson Inquiry.
52.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to Peter Williams, 5 August 1964.
53.The Anderson Report, Chapter 6.
54.L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin, 11 May 1963.
55.ibid.
56.Kangaroo Court, op. cit., p. 13.
57.ibid., p. 16.
58.ibid., p. 17.
59.ibid.
60.The Anderson Repor
t, Chapter 1.
61.ibid.
62.Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1987, p. 250.
63.Kangaroo Court, op. cit., p. 19.
64.The Anderson Report, loc. cit.
65.Kangaroo Court, op. cit., p. 43.
66.The Anderson Report, loc. cit.
67.The original report was 173 foolscap pages plus appendices. The PDF available online is 234 pages in total.
68.The Anderson Report, Prefatory Note.
69.ibid., Chapter 6.
70.ibid.
71.ibid.
72.ibid., Prefatory Note.
73.ibid., Chapter 30.
74.ibid.
75.Kevin Anderson, Fossil in the Sandstone: The Recollecting Judge, Spectrum Publications, Richmond VIC, 1986, pp. 2–4.
76.The Anderson Report, Chapter 25.
77.ibid.
78.ibid., Chapter 2.
79.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 253.
80.Jon Atack, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, pp. 177–178.
81.Jon Atack email to author.
82.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 253.
83.The Anderson Report, Prefatory Note.
84.Peter Gillham Snr interview with author.
85.The Anderson Report, Recommendations, Chapter 31.
Chapter 9
1.Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1987, p. 236.
2.L. Ron Hubbard Melbourne Congress, Welcome Address, 7 November 1959.
3.Kangaroo Court, Hubbard College of Scientology, Church of Scientology of California, 1967, pp3–4.
4.ibid., p. 3.
5.ibid.
6.ibid., pp. 3–4.
7.ibid., p. 3.
8.Simon Cooke, A Meeting of Minds: The Australian Psychological Society and Australian Psychologists 1944–1994, Australian Psychological Society, Carlton South, VIC, 2000, p. 108.
9.‘Bill empowers seizure of Scientology documents’, The Age, 11 November 1965.
10.Jack Galbally speech to the Victorian Parliament, 7 November 1965.
11.Simon Cooke, op. cit., p. 109.
12.ibid.
13.Malcolm Macmillan interview with author.
14.ibid.
15.ibid. and Simon Cooke, loc. cit.
16.Malcolm Macmillan interview with author and Simon Cooke, ibid., p. 108.
17.‘Thousands of files in Scientology raid’, The Age, 22 December 1965.
18.ibid.
19.‘Scientology ban now in force’, The Age, 22 December 1965.
20.Howard Dickman’s biography of Yvonne Gillham: http://scientolipedia.org/info/Yvonne_Gillham_Jentzsch
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