Category Archives: Book: The Evolution of a Lie

A Thumbnail introduction to the “Figtree Affair”: Figtree Anglican church v the Dobbs family

I have written a great deal about this case: A Cautionary Tale, A Mother’s Story, The Evolution of a Lie, Whispers and Lies and The First Stone Revisited are the major ones. Each looks at the case from a different angle. This article is to give the new readers (or just the bemused readers) a

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The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 10

The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 10 The curious story of Anika Rose aka Lee Tran(Trang) aka Girl Y. Who was she? Her anonymous story to Helen Irvine as told to Bruce Clarke. 2016 chapter 10(2)

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The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 9

2016 chapter 9 The UOW Lie – A closer look at Corinne Cortese’s story and Robyn Weekes, the cooperative Director EEDU UOW.

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The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 8

2016 chapter 8 Chapter 8: The UOW Lie – Scott’s story.

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The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 7

2016 chapter 7 The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 7 UOW’s problem with cheating, bribery and soft marking.

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The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 6

2016 chapter 6 (2) The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 6 Figtree Anglican Church and the PSU are responsible for abuse of the Dobbs family and Emma Nicholls

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The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 5

2016 chapter 5 (2) The Evolution of a Lie chapter 5 There were problems with the case which were identified from the start yet the PSU went on and on with an expensive, time-consuming and fundamentally flawed and incompetent process resulting in Scott forcing a referral to a hearing by the Disciplinary Tribunal.

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The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 2

2016 chapter 2 (2) The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 2 A timeline and outline of the evolution of the Lie from the 1990’s to November 2006

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The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 1

2016 chapter 1 (2) The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 1 The Story

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The Evolution of a Lie: the story of Figtree Anglican Church and persecution of the Dobbs family

In 2007 a dedicated Christian family, Dr. Scott Dobbs, his wife Machelle and their six children were subjected to the worst form of persecution by the clergy, staff and certain parishioners of Figtree Anglican Church (FAC) culminating in the senior clergy, Rod Irvine and Bruce Clarke, ‘excommunicating’ the whole family from the church they had

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