“Do you want Australian tax exemptions to be supporting an organisation that coerces its followers into having abortions? Do you want to be supporting an organisation that defrauds, that blackmails, that falsely imprisons? Because on the balance of evidence provided by victims of Scientology you probably are.”

— Nick Xenophon

From 2009 November 17 speech on Scientology in Australia Senate, cited in ABC News, 18 November 2009, Scientology a 'criminal organisation', 2009-11-18 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2745765.htm,

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