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Australian government continues to fund schools run by extremist cult

Macquarie National News / Live.com.au, Australia
Jan. 14, 2008
Yoni Bashan
livenews.com.au

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The shadowy Exclusive Brethren religious sect has been guaranteed another $10 million in taxpayer funding for its school campuses, despite being branded an “extremist cult” which “breaks up families” by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd before the election.

In a stunning turnaround which could spark a rift inside Government ranks, Labor will continue bankrolling dozens of Brethren schools, even though it launched several blistering attacks on the group and demanded a review of its campus funding arrangements while in opposition.

Inside the Exclusive Brethren – August 22nd, 2007 – A Current Affair extract.

According to budget estimate figures obtained by Livenews.com.au, more than $35 million dollars has been set aside for the sect’s 31 schools since 2005.

In New South Wales there are 17 campuses, organised under the centralised Meadowbank Education Trust (MET), which received more than $4 million last year.

The figure is expected to rise by $300,000 under Labor while, nationally, Brethren schools will receive an estimated $10,106,948 in 2008.

The PM has been backed into a corner over the issue after vowing to maintain funding levels for all non-government schools in a bid to win office.

However, Kevin Rudd has raised serious concerns about the Exclusive Brethren in the past and slammed their teaching ideologies as counter-productive for students.

“I have real reservations having federal taxpayers’ money going into those sorts of schools,” Mr Rudd said in 2006.

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Many of the Exclusive Brethren movement’s teachings and practices are abusive to such an extent that this movement can rightly be labeled as an abusive church, and possibly even as a cult of Christianity

As its political smear campaigns demonstrate, hypocrisy is a hallmark of the Exclusive Brethren – members of which are not allowed to vote

“Based on my advice, [they] actively discourage children from using information technology [and] from learning how to use computers properly because they will provide avenues of contact with the outside world.”

The decision is also likely to anger Left faction leader Anthony Albanese who’s known for his bitter campaigns against the conservative sect.

Brethren students are discouraged from using computers and the Internet to minimise their contact with the outside world.

Critics say the funding decision flies in the face of Labor’s “Education Revolution”, which is centred around modern technology like computers.

Brethren officials say the technology is an integral part of their teaching agenda.

But Greens senator Christine Milne says it’s just a ploy to receive more taxpayer-funded handouts, which are only provided if schools meet strict curriculum guidelines. election.

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