Scientology got me waiting...

No word back yet from Janne. I wonder if it's a real person or just a front. I don't even know if I am talking to a man or a woman. According to the baby name guesser it's almost equally likely to be a boy's as a girl's name.

In the meantime, here's what a 1967 pamphlet published by the Scientologists has to say about Australians. Well, it talks about Victorians only, as it was in reply to a damning report on Scientology by a Victorian enquiry (cited in the British Foster report), which states that:

Scientology is evil; its techniques evil; its practice a serious threat to the community, medically, morally and socially, and its adherents sadly deluded and often mentally ill.

Scientology is a grave threat to family and home life. As well as causing financial hardship it engenders dissension, suspicion and mistrust amongst members of the family. Scientology has caused many family estrangements.
The Board has been unable to find any worth-while redeeming feature in Scientology.

(Scientology is a) fabric of falsehood, fraud and fantasy.

So this is what the Scientologists had to say about the report (to which they gave their complete cooperation, by the by). Their pamphlet was tellingly called Kangaroo Court:

The State of Victoria began in the 19th Century as a convict settlement composed of the riff-raff of London's slums - robbers, murderers, prostitutes, fences, thieves - the scourings of Newgate and Bedlam. [...] A society founded by criminals, organised by criminals and devoted to making people criminals.

On behalf of my Australian relatives, and of course Bill, I am deeply offended.