http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/nigel-mannock/ Nigel is the Human Rights Director of the Church of Scientology Australia and has worked there for the last 4 years. He was brought up and educated as an Anglican and developed a passion for human values and self determinism and pursued that through creation and development of vision and values programmes for commercial enterprises. Before joining the Church Nigel’s career included working as an executive for Myer Stores and the Virgin Retail group. Nigel travels extensively working on the Church’s Human Rights and Volunteer Minister programmes across Australia, Asia and the Pacific. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/senators-campaign-just-a-cover-for-a-new-tax/ Last week’s Senate inquiry into the private member’s bill, the Tax Laws Amendment (Public Benefit Test) Bill 2010, was only allowed to run with the credence and terms of reference of a broad ranging review of the tax exempt status for all charities and religions in Australia. A very different story became apparent when questioning began. It was heavily slanted with witnesses against one religion under the guise of a tax inquiry. Senator Doug Cameron notably kept his questions on track and asked intelligent, direct and reasoned questions. But despite repeated reassurances by Liberal Senator Alan Eggleston as the inquiry Chair that “the behaviour of specific individuals and organisations is not within the terms of reference of this committee”, five former Scientologists were invited by Senator Xenophon to appear before the committee where they, to put it colloquially, dumped a bucket on the Church. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Nigel Mannock) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/senators-campaign-just-a-cover-for-a-new-tax/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/senators-campaign-just-a-cover-for-a-new-tax/#item3504 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:40:27 +0000 Nigel Mannock | Author bios | The Punch