The organisations believed headed by cult followers included the Helidon Sports and Recreation Association, Tabletop Junior Arts and Craft Club, Southeast Queensland Junior Astronomers and the Helidon Celtic Historical Society. Some are on a website, registered to cult follower Clare Birchley.

Australian taxpayers have given thousands of dollars to organisations linked to the controversial religious cult Magnificat Meal Movement.

Local officials now fear the organisations are being used as a front for festivals to generate large amounts of cash for the cult.

The self-proclaimed visionary who told followers she was receiving messages from the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, attracted up to 400 followers after she moved to Toowoomba in 1992 from Melbourne.

HELIDON - cult leader Debra Geileskey has been allegedly travelling on a false passport claiming to be a diplomat from a fictitious country called Caledonia Australis.

BELMONT, Mass. --The Mormons left Boston more than 160 years ago, breaking up the young religion's largest congregation in the eastern U.S. around 1845 to seek refuge in a solitary West.

A wealthy US couple has launched legal action against alleged Magnificat Meal Movement "cult" leader Debra Geileskey for refusing to repay a $600,000 property loan.

A nephew of Charles Haughey, who shocked friends by moving to Australia to join a controversial cult, has returned home to Ireland to live.

Five cult members were arrested after trying to stop police from executing a search warrant at a property west of Brisbane today.

The Courier Mail (Australia), July 16, 2003

The Courier Mail (Australia), June 14, 2003

The Courier Mail (Australia), June 14, 2003