Well, after a couple of download glitches, I've finally got the hard facts -

                            Females         Males                  Total
Aboriginal Traditional -       2480          2744                   5224
Agnosticism -                  7354         10213                  17567
Atheism -                      9219         15245                  24464
No religion -               1314735       1542569                2857304
Paganism -                     6612          4020                  10632
Rastafarianism -                167           899                   1066 
Satanism -                      383          1415                   1798
Theosophy -                     965           662                   1627
Wiccan/Witchcraft -            6621          2134                   8755
$cientology -                   866          1166                   2032

in 1996, at the last census, $cientology had 1488 professed members, which was 0.01% of the population

18,972,350 (9,610,329 female, 9362021 male)

five years later, they have 2032 professed members, which is 0.01% of the population.

They're growing at a rate of 109 members per annum!

I'm impressed! <snicker>

tam

"Of the few innocent pleasures left…. the jamming of commonsense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest." Thomas Huxley

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