No it was a government funded youth music group, no religion. My cuz set it up when he was in yr 12 and the state government came on board (took all the friggen credit) and we got council and state gov money to put on music gig's. Money raised went into buying stage and lighting equipment, city council gave us a building to put shows on it and we did all the organisation. We had Something for Kate play their first gig there, we had bands like Bodyjar, Christbait, Jimi The Human, Hoodoo Gurus and one un-unamed bunch of ******s from a place south west of Melbourne who demanded an $18K rider to play a second gig with us all because they had one song in the charts.
Today the offshoot and government side of the thing in Vic is called Freeza, and it's going in a number of regions but my cuz started it, got the funding and ran the whole show before Freeza and some government jack came on board and took it all over claiming it as a state government initiative. Without what my cuz started Freeza probably wouldn't even be around let alone running for 18 odd years.