as Geoffrey Rush's reputation is torn to pieces in court an unlikely name is drawn into the case as a person who (despite witnessing sod all) is shown to have emailed the newspaper re Rush allegations.

Sarah Monahan famously appeared in the Robert Hughes' court case where emails were produced between her and her agent as she argued the money she was receiving for selling her tale of abuse wasn't enough and that she needed much more to set herself up as a "movie producer" in the USA.

Her abuse was uncovered on stays at the extremely odd "retreat" run by her pal,former theatre agent Liz Mulliner.

Mulliner claims the area where her retreat is in rural NSW is riven with a Satanic VIP Pedo Ring (sound familiar?)

Retreat for child abuse survivors faces investigation calls

Mulliner was a powerful agent before she sold off her share to her partner who happens to be the wife of the jailed Robert Hughes.

Mulliner, Monahan fulminated when Hughes was jailed as Hughes wife still handled the careers of Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and err.. Geoffrey Rush demanding she drop them or they leave the agency.
They all remained loyal and stayed.

## the last time I saw Mulliner was at a gathering of founders of the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney 3 years ago. She looks to me to have haunted eyes and I noticed most of the theatre crowd kept their distance. One of the founders gave the official speech..Geoffrey Rush.

I wasn't sure what you meant by her e-mailing the newspaper, but found this:

"Allegations that actor Geoffrey Rush "inappropriately" touched a female colleague during a theatre production were brought to light by actress Sarah Monahan" ... Documents tendered by the Telegraph to the Federal Court reveal Sarah Monahan told the newspaper "that a complaint had been made to the Sydney Theatre Company by [the woman] in substance that [Rush] had touched her genitals during the production of King Lear without her consent".
www.smh.com.au/nsw/actress-sarah-monahan...20180220-p4z10k.html

Do you think that Monahan was just conveying a message she had received from this unnamed woman or that she (and/or Mullinar?) has been stirring things up against Rush?

Sorry, hedda, you've confused me.

- Liz Mulliner ran hippy dippy retreats or something.
- Liz Mulliner was also a theatrical agent for Sarah Monahan, among others.
- Liz Mulliner sold her share of the agent business to the wife of Robert Hughes.
- Robert Hughes was subsequently accused by Sarah Monahan of sex crimes at the hippy retreats and imprisoned.
- Liz Mulliner agitated for clients of Robert Hughes's wife (including Geoffrey Rush) to leave her representation.
- They didn't.
- Now, a former client of Liz Mulliner has accused Geoffrey Rush of something?

Have I understood you correctly?

Some interesting stuff here.

Notes about Mayumarri and Heal for Life

Randall wrote:
Sorry, hedda, you've confused me.

- Liz Mulliner ran hippy dippy retreats or something.
- Liz Mulliner was also a theatrical agent for Sarah Monahan, among others.
- Liz Mulliner sold her share of the agent business to the wife of Robert Hughes.
- Robert Hughes was subsequently accused by Sarah Monahan of sex crimes at the hippy retreats and imprisoned.
- Liz Mulliner agitated for clients of Robert Hughes's wife (including Geoffrey Rush) to leave her representation.
- They didn't.
- Now, a former client of Liz Mulliner has accused Geoffrey Rush of something?

Have I understood you correctly?

Randall ..by Jove you've got it !

Mulliner's "Heal4Life" is hardly 'hippy dippy' rather a multi million $$ retreat funded by (now disaffected supporters) and via government grants and Mulliner insists that many abused visitors are victims of Satanic Ritual Orgies (and those who cross her are in the Satanic Cult)

Answering Jo: yes Liz Mulliner was the agent for just about every successful Oz actor including Monahan and even Robert Hughes whose wife was Mulliner's partner in the agency.

All the witnesses against Hugues (who I reckon was railroaded) happened to be his co-'stars' on the Oz TV show 'Hey Dad' and all happened to be represented by Liz Mulliner.
They all recalled Hughes' alleged abuse some decades after the show finished. Odd

Mulliner bizarrely suddenly upped stakes from the most successful theatrical agency nearly 20 years ago after she had "recovered memories " that she was abused in Satanic Orgies by her Guys Hospital highly respected physician father.

She set up her "retreat' funded by wealthy donors and of course $millions in government payments.

I can't say that Monahan 'recovered' memories of abuse at a Mulliner retreat but they are "thick as thieves."

The agent who handled Monahan's sale of her story to tabloid magazines that set of a furore in Australia (same as Rolf Harris) was extremely pally with all the 'witnesses', skates on thin ice and for some reason the name M. Clifford comes to mind.

Something really stinks about the Geoffrey Rush claims and it has split the Australian film & theatre community asunder..one camp exposed as the creepy cowards they are by just accepting accusations as they are in ditching support for Rush and the other ( I would be in that camp) who admire and respect Rush as the decent man he is.
# the hugely successful Australian Theatre Company(from whence the Rush accusations emanate)that has had major successes in the USA under the auspices of Cate Blanchett & Rush seems to have unthinkingly (and by acting in knee jerk fashion) shot itself in the foot with word that benefactors Lachlan Murdoch (owner of the newspaper Rush is suing) and Giogio Amani pulling funding.

But there can be no denying Mulliner was vile and bullying when she demanded actors like Blanchett, Rush & Crowe(and others) ditch their agent (Hughes' wife) after his conviction.
They remained loyal as she had guided their careers from when they were all unknown and is responsible for their world-wide success.

Whatever the outcome..it's so creepily incestuous and to make matters worse..I had not realised I know the journalist who wrote the article and all I can say...so many in the media now skate on this ice and seem oblivious that in all good Witch Hunts...the Witch Finder Generals end up on the bonfire.

an absolute first..Hedda made a mistake which has never happened before except for the few times it has..

Mulliner's father apparently was Reverend not a doctor.

Hedda made a second mistake which is bizarre as it's never happened before except for the above and few other times.

Rush is not accused by a Heal4Life patient(?) rather a co-star in the play King Lear from 2016.

she has accused Geoffrey Rush of "touching her genitals" as he carried her on stage...this seems very strange.

Rush is not s big man and he would need to carry the woman with both arms..as he did so in front of an audience of about 400 people.

The notion he could fumblingly grope someone at the same time without someone noticing is bizarre.

But accusations are all that matters these days.

Reality is sooo yesterday.

Most interesting, hedda, you have all the gen!

It is odd that the Hey Dad cast would have kept quiet for decades until they all remembered at once.

A couple of years ago I came across an interview with Hughes' niece, Melinda O'Donnell, which I thought was very weird: she seemed so robotic and was being fed lines by the interviewer.



Hope Rush can get through this and isn't sucked down. It really sounds as if malevolent forces are at work.

hedda wrote:
she has accused Geoffrey Rush of "touching her genitals" as he carried her on stage...this seems very strange.



That's ridiculous. How on earth can we be persuaded that he did such a thing deliberately, in the flow of live performance?

Another minor correction, about Matthew Hopkins. He was never given the title Witchfinder General - except by himself. Neither he nor the other major witchhunter, John Stearne (also not titled Witchfinder General) became victims of their own campaigns. Matthew Hopkins died of TB shortly after retirement. John Stearne had a long (for those days) and peaceful retirement and wrote A Confirmation And Discovery Of Witchcraft. You can read it here if you want an insight into the thinking of an example of such people. www.witchtrials.co.uk/stearne.html

Actually, there are a few interesting parallels between Matthew Hopkins and modern practitioners. Firstly, there's the self-appointed expert hunter status, which you see from people like Mark Williams Thomas and the vigilante groups. Secondly, Matthew Hopkins was also a failure - or at least notably underwhelming - in previous careers. Thirdly, there was huge monetary reward in what he did, as we can see in financial records from the time. There was frequently a coincidence between those paying out the money and the accused being people who were not in the disburser's favour. Lastly, Matthew Hopkins was operating without much legal scrutiny, in a context of badly drafted law, among people ignorant of what it was. In other legal systems, witchraft crimes were crimen exceptum, allowing other legal protections to be circumvented or ignore. This was NOT allowed in English law, and much of the opposition to Hopkins's methods came from concern about torture, which was illegal. Nevertheless, there was a feeling that witchcraft was indeed crimen exceptum and that the importance of defeating the devil overrode other considerations. You can see these elements today: lack of transparency, poorly written and ambiguous laws, public ignorance of what the law is, a sense of crimen exceptum and a willingness to ignore other parts of law in pursuit of a narrow area of legislation.