government opinion australia wording under the government opinion australia section this phrase appears the unanimous opinion of that court was that scientology is a religion the cited source is this document states section the question whether scientology is a religion cannot be answered for there seem to be important perhaps critically important tenets of scientology which the parties left without full examination the question which can be answered is whether the beliefs practices and observances which were established by the affidavits and oral evidence as the set of beliefs practices and observances accepted by scientologists are properly to be described as a religion the unanimous decision wording clearly needs to be rephrased to indicate that the decision was based on information withheld by the relevant parties