Brian Houston
Opinion
Political leadership
‘Nobody quite understood’: What role did religion play in Scott Morrison’s ‘bulldozer’ moves?
The media has largely abided by the convention that religion is personal, but the former member for Cook was not a conventional politician.
- by David Hardaker
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Brian Houston found not guilty of covering up father’s child sexual abuse
Outside the court, the founder of Hillsong Church said his father was a serial paedophile whose full offending may never be known.
- by Georgina Mitchell
Brian Houston told thousands of people about his father’s child sexual abuse, court told
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.
- by Georgina Mitchell
Brian Houston protected Hillsong when he failed to report father to police: prosecutor
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.
- by Georgina Mitchell
Opinion
Religion
The Hillsong experiment is over. Christianity was never meant to be cool
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.
- by Cherie Gilmour
Clive Palmer’s $116 million senator steps away from family real estate business
The United Australia Party’s Ralph Babet will still be helping sell houses on the weekend despite quitting as a director of Babet Brothers.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman
Charity watchdog investigating Hillsong over fraud and tax evasion claims
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie used parliamentary privilege to claim financial records and documents show misuse of church funds.
- by Rachael Ward
Hillsong accused of misusing church funds to pay for private jets, luxury retreats
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has accused the church of using donations to do “shopping that would embarrass a Kardashian” and breaking financial laws.
- by James Massola
Brian Houston maintains it was the ‘right thing’ not to report father’s abuse
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.
- by Duncan Murray
‘Absurd’: Brian Houston denies telling father’s victim abuse was his fault
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”.
- by Jenny Noyes
Brian Houston now has ‘no doubt’ his father was a ‘serial paedophile’
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.
- by Jenny Noyes
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