South Australian premier Mike Rann has cleared his frontbenchers to call Scientologists “bastards”.
Rann’s Education Minister, Jane Lomax-Smith, has featured on a video posted by anti-Scientology group Anonymous, in which she questions the Church’s tax-free status.
The video shows Ms Lomax-Smith asking the masked protesters: “Are you all related to someone who has been sucked in?”
“They should be taxed, the bastards,” she continues.
“They shouldn’t be tax-free, we’re subsidising them. I like your masks.”
The Church of Scientology has officially complained to the Premier, however Mr Rann has not censured his minister.