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The Spirit of Things- Has Religious Bigotry found a home in ABC religious programming?

What is the agenda of religious programming on the ABC for what appears to be the fifth intensive promotion on the ABC of this apparent documentary 'Beyond Our Ken'?  Why?

Bevin Hudson's own words on Kenja and his time in Kenja "... I met Ken when I was in my early 20's. I was attending Alcoholics Anonymous for chronic alcoholism and drug addiction. I was unemployed and unemployable. There was no future for me ... I ended up in bed all day diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic with malnutrition and scurvy. Naturally I tried to commit suicide and failed ... Ken helped me out. He understood what it was like. He had the patience to keep helping when everyone else had just given up ..."  and there is much more...

• Nobody representing Kenja was invited to participate in this story Spirit of Things.
   
• Ken cleared his name in court and at the time of his passing had not one conviction against his name.
   
• Rachael Kohn wants to hide this fact; that in 1993 eleven charges of sexual assault by 4 girls against Ken Dyers came to court. Not one of those charges resulted in a conviction. For a man to face charges of child abuse in a court situation in front of a jury is a most hideous experience. No jury in the world has empathy for the man standing trial. Yet Ken was found not guilty on 10 of the 11 charges. And the 11th charge, a "kiss on the forehead" which was tried separately resulted in a conviction. Even the prosecutor wanted to drop the case after the glaring inconsistencies between the complainant's evidence and her mother's evidence.  But the judge insisted the case continue. This conviction was overturned by the High Court of Australia, who found that the judge had misdirected the jury to find Ken guilty. This resulted in probably the most important piece of judicial law to come down this decade called the "Dyers Direction", putting the onus of proof back on the prosecution.
   
• Ken had his day in court and passed on without one conviction after his name.
   
• Why is the ABC part of an agenda to hide this fact?  
   
• The truth about the attempt to falsify Ken's War Records
  
  
• Melissa's film follows the sleaze of a small group of people attacking Kenja, who failed in court in the 1993 attack on Ken and Kenja, to gain credibility for these sleaze stories. None of the people attacking Kenja in the film have been involved in Kenja for at least 17 years (except for "shadow man"). Melissa would not reveal to us the identity of the people to whom she was speaking so we had no right of reply.
   
• Melissa breached almost every agreement she made with Ken, Jan and the people of Kenja. She even withheld from Ken and Jan that she had given footage showing probably every person involved in Kenja to police. She continued to interview Ken and Jan, withholding from them that she had done this.
   
• Melissa was shown documented evidence to expose the stated agenda of this small group of people to destroy Kenja by attacking Ken. She does not pursue this evidence in her film, but attempts to hide it.
   
• Instead she takes the audience on a restimulative emotional sleaze journey into hopelessness, withholding her known association with the organisations behind these people.
   
• As Melissa exposes herself in numerous ABC interviews, her agenda becomes more and more obvious. 
     
  
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Melissa interviewed Ken, 85 years old and in very ill health for approximately 5 hours at every sitting. He was usually exhausted at the end of these interviews and his outburst came at the end of another full day of interviewing. It was the last time we were to ever see Melissa. The up to 20 hours of footage she had of him up to this point contained no such outburst. But on this final day Ken was quite dismayed to realise we had been betrayed - he was beginning to realise Melissa's agenda was not the objective one she had presented to us. This little piece of footage shows Ken immediately after his outburst, when he apologises and both parties associated with the film assure Ken that they would have the same emotion had they been in the position he was for over 15 years. Melissa had finally got what she wanted. We never saw her again.




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