The media has largely abided by the convention that religion is personal,but the former member for Cook was not a conventional politician.
Outside the court,the founder of Hillsong Church said his father was a serial paedophile whose full offending may never be known.
Brian Houston is accused of concealing a serious indictable offence over failing to tell police about his father’s crime between 1999 and 2004. He denies his guilt.
The former church leader is facing Downing Centre Local Court accused of failing to tell police about his father’s sexual abuse of a boy in the 1970s.
When I was a teenager,I joined Christian City Church. We were young,affluent and #blessed. Every girl (and maybe a few guys) wanted to marry Joel Houston,Hillsong founder Brian Houston’s son.
The United Australia Party’s Ralph Babet will still be helping sell houses on the weekend despite quitting as a director of Babet Brothers.
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie used parliamentary privilege to claim financial records and documents show misuse of church funds.
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has accused the church of using donations to do “shopping that would embarrass a Kardashian” and breaking financial laws.
The Hillsong founder believes he was right not to go to the police after his father told him he had molested an underage boy three decades earlier.
The victim of Frank Houston’s child sexual abuse has told a court Brian Houston accused him of “tempting my father”,but Brian Houston says that is “nonsense”.
The Hillsong founder has told the court it’s possible his father moved to Australia in the 1970s to escape what he’d done to boys in New Zealand.