AUSTRALIA: Victorian Parliament inquiry into recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups

SAY SORRY / 26 November 2025. SaySorry.org

Say Sorry has published today 48 individual parliamentary submissions – made by persons impacted by Jehovah’s Witnesses – that have been released this week by a parliament inquiry.

The Inquiry, is looking into coercive control and ‘cult’ like behaviour within cults and new religious movements within Victoria, Australia. Recommendations from the Inquiry will be delivered to parliament in September 2026.

Background: On the morning of Thursday 3 April 2025, the following motion was put forward within the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, by Mary-Anne Thomas MP, Minister for Health:

Read more at original location. Link.

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