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The moment that changed my life
One very simple thing was all it took to change everything. That, and years of dedicat3d practice.
- Clare Boyd-Macrae
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‘The devil is trying to deceive’: Leaked recordings show Brethren boss’s behaviour crackdown
As the secretive sect insists it had no role in campaigning for the Coalition, leaked recordings of a recent crackdown point to strict top-down control.
- Michael Bachelard
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And justice for one – or three
Courts can be impersonal and inhumane places. They can also, on a good day, dispense justice.
- Alexandra Sangster
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Pontiff’s plea for compassion puts humanity first as AI reshapes world
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence shows that, in him, ordinary people do have a champion.
- Barney Zwartz
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- Investigations
Secrecy, loyalty, discipline: Videos, texts blow lid on Brethren election conduct
Church elders were caught on camera coaching volunteers to be evasive and aggressive, undermining the separatist religion’s claims it played no role in the federal election.
- Michael Bachelard
TikTok to the dock: BMX stunt at Scientology speedrun leads to court
A teenager has been accused of using a police car as a BMX ramp after a viral challenge went awry at the Church of Scientology in Brisbane’s CBD.
- Robyn Wuth
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The Jewish festival you’ve never heard of – and it involves ice-cream
The Shavuot festival memorialises the giving of the law to the Jewish people – and is intimately bound to dietary practices.
- Nomi Kaltmann
‘I should have been dead’: He co-founded a $4.2b empire but has given it up to become a priest
Scott Borba was living the high life until one night at a party at his newly renovated house in the Hollywood Hills, he looked around and questioned everything.
- Michael Levenson
Unholy deception: Rome’s ‘sexy priest’ calendar star never set foot in a seminary
Giovanni Galizia has been the cover shot for the calendar for many of the past 23 editions. It turns out, he’s not a man of the cloth.
- Colleen Barry and Paolo Santalucia
