Patrick McIvor

Category: Analysis

  • What Victoria’s Cult Inquiry Needs to Deliver
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    What Victoria’s Cult Inquiry Needs to Deliver

    This week, the Victorian Parliament’s Legal and Social Issues Committee is expected to table the final report of its inquiry into cults and organised fringe groups. The report follows an avalanche of survivor testimony, alongside evidence from advocates, researchers, faith representatives and government bodies, which has made it impossible to ignore that Victoria has a…

  • It’s Hard to Explain

    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