Category: Analysis
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It’s Hard to Explain
In Victoria, a parliamentary inquiry is finally listening to what survivors of cults and high-control groups have been saying for decades. The testimony emerging is devastating in scale and strikingly consistent: across registered charities, religious organisations, health practices, and community initiatives, people have been targeted with patterned coercion that reshapes
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Why Don’t Cults Pay Tax?
At first glance, this seems like a simple question. If an organisation harms people, why does it receive charitable status and the tax concessions that come with it? The obvious answer is failure of enforcement. But that does not quite fit the evidence. Since its establishment in 2012, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission has…
Patrick McIvor 