Exclusive Brethren Schools collect another AUS$800,000

October 20th, 2008

The Australian government is now openly funding Exclusive Brethren schools with public money.  Why is this significant? Because the schools are not open to the public – Australian tax-payers cannot send their children to an EB school, even if they wanted to.

The only non-Exclusive Brethren kids in EB schools are children of the non-EB teachers they are forced to hire because of the Exclusive Brethren ban on university education. This in itself begs the question:

Why would tax-payers want to fund an intentional restriction of a child’s future?

No Exclusive Brethren child is allowed to fulfill their destiny through university education. And yet Kevin Rudd is funding the perpetuation of what amounts to an infringement of human rights! Read all »

October 19th, 2008

One of the largest payments into the Exclusive Brethren ‘indoctrination’ schools came not from the mega-wealthy leaders of the cult, but from the Australian government – or to be more accurate, from the hard-working Australian tax-payers.

How do you feel about your tax dollars being used to perpetuate “an extremist sect and cult”?

How do you feel when you are told that they could afford to fund their schools ten-times over – but prefer not to … as long as they can find someone willing to pay on their behalf.

What’s up with you Kevin?

Brethren’s Qld schools gain $3m

Brisbane Times
by Kate Dennehy
October 19, 2008

Queensland schools run by the Exclusive Brethren  which Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described as “an extremist cult”  received more than $3.1 million in taxpayer funding this year.
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August 27, 2008

What part of Senator Milne’s comments in Australian Parliament yesterday did the Exclusive Brethren not understand? Leaving aside the issue of the Hales-endorsed political smear campaigns, the false names and addresses on the various smear advertisements, the world-wide orchestrated political contributions, the sudden payments into tyre companies that then paid for the printing and/or advertising …

We could even leave aside the trail of broken families, the suicides and wrecked lives that are directly attributable to the Exclusive Brethren.

Senator Milne outlined some basic arithmetic for the Australian people.

It should be looked at by every tax-paying Australian. Read all »

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Peter Flinn, [telephone number removed]
kelspec@bigpond.com

15th May 2008

No comfort for Exclusive Brethren in PM’s response to submission

In a letter received this week, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd acknowledges the concerns raised with him by former members of the Exclusive Brethren.

Ex-member spokesman Peter Flinn said it was clear from the Prime Minister’s letter that his views have not changed from those stated last year when he described the Exclusive Brethren as an “extremist cult and sect” whose activities “break up families”.

Mr Rudd was responding to a submission on behalf of 33 Brethren ex-members from around the world. He said he remains concerned about the Brethren’s “reported imposition of doctrines that weaken family bonds.” Read all »