YouTube – Illuminaughty: The New Zealand Cult That Preyed on Children: Gloriavale | Prism of the Past

January 25, 2022: You Tube – Illuminaughti PLEASE NOTE: There are many inaccuracies in this podcast – including the following: Haupiri Valley (not Haupiori) Neville Cooper did not set up Gloriavale in 1969 – he established Springbank community first, then when the community moved to Haupiri Valley over a period of years in…

Newstalk ZB – Churches in difficult position if vaccine exemption requests denied

November 4, 2021: Newstalk ZB – Heather Du Plessis-Alan with Peter Lineham – 04/11/2021 [Audio can be listened to from article link] Applications for religious exemptions to vaccine mandates are yet to be made but Gloriavale may be the first. A source close to the community says Gloriavale may be asking the Government…

RNZ – Leaving Gloriavale

June 30, 2021: The Detail – RNZ – 30/06/2021 [Podcast access via article link] Increasing numbers of people are leaving Gloriavale, the West Coast Christian community that’s been around for more than 50 years. It’s been investigated by police, Charity Services, Oranga Tamariki and WorkSafe. Former members are taking a civil suit against…

NZ Herald – A Moment In Crime: Gloriavale – smocks, secrecy and sex offenders

May 25, 2021: By Anna Leask – NZ Herald – 25/05/2021 In the late 1960s, an Australian preacher made his way to New Zealand. He had a vision to set up a Christian community where everyone shared everything and cared for everyone – where they shunned the “ungodliness” of the modern world and…

RNZ – Oranga Tamariki and police presence at Gloriavale welcomed

May 7, 2021: RNZ (Radio New Zealand) – 05/05/2021 [Audio in article link] A support group for people who choose to leave the Gloriavale Christian Community on the West Coast is relieved by the latest action by police and Oranga Tamariki. The two agencies have been at the West Coast community since Monday,…

More Gloriavale residents leaving but struggling to survive

November 14, 2019: Newstalk ZB – 14/11/2019 [Audio in article link] – listen to James Harrison talking about what it is like for families once they have left Gloriavale. It’s the small community on the west coast that captures everybody’s attention, but is the cult of Gloriavale slowly unravelling? Two large families have…

Word Christchurch festival 2018: four adventurous women talk about their lives

June 2, 2019: RNZ | Writers and Readers Festivals | Recorded on the anniversary of 125 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, four women talk about their extraordinary personal stories. Listen to Lilia Tarawa from 12:00-22:50 Word Christchurch Festival 2018…

Peter Lineham: Gloriavale

March 18, 2019: Radio New Zealand – Mike Hosking Breakfast – 18/03/2019 [Audio can be listened to from article link]. Listen to Associate Professor Peter Lineham, Massey University speak on Gloriavale. Listen here: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/peter-lineham-gloriavale/  …