Huang Xiangmo is not ranting & raving,and he is not stupid: Claims of persecution by Australian "deep state" obviously not aimed at politicians, civil servants the likely targets (and not just the ATO)

by Ganesh Sahathevan


The South China Morning Post has reported that "Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo claims persecution by ‘dark forces of Australia’s deep state’".

Huang has already demanded that the politicians who he funded return his donations, so the "deep state" comment is probably not aimed at them. He has named the ATO and ASIO, but he has not stopped there.He has gone on to  accuse "deep state" players, and this is quite likely a reference to any number of  Australian federal and state civil servants he has had to deal with over the years. 

Australian civil servants both state and federal have been shown to have gotten themselves involved in the whole matter of Chinese interference in Australian politics. 


Some seem determined to ingratiate themselves with the Communist Party Of China, others in promoting the interests of their political maters.Whatever their motives, the veil of secrecy that protects them needs to be removed; meanwhile it does look as if Huang Xiangmo is threatening to do exactly that.

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Sunday, October 13, 2019

Communist Party Of China interference: What of the civil servants? TEQSA,LPAB dealings with Zhu Minshen requires stripping away of civil service secrecy,civil servants must be investigated like politicians

by Ganesh Sahathevan

TEQSA

@TEQSAGov

#TEQSA is proud to be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and 70th Chinese National Day, with #students and #scholars from

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Ms. Emily Goode, Representative of Mr. Anthony McClaran, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Higher Education Quality Management and Standards (TEQSA) attended this celebration of the Communist Party Of China's China 70 celebrations

China's  interference: LPAB, TEQSA and universities show that Australia's civil servants warrant  further scrutiny ;public service secrecy cannot be a shield against decisions made in China's interests

While much of the public scrutiny of China's interference in Australia's affairs has concerned politicians, elected representatives and to a lesser extent the universities little if any attention has been paid to Australian civil servants who have proven not immune to China's charms.

The usual civil servant's appearance of impartiality has been set aside, for example, by TEQSA and its senior officers who participated in the recent China 70 (70th Chinese National Day) celebrations organised by the Communist Party Of China.

TEQSA and its chairman Nick Saunders have refused to explain why any of the above was appropriate, especially given the fact that TEQSA has not been known to celebrate any other foreign country's national day in this way.

TEQSA,along with the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board have also been responsible for favouring Zhu Minshen, who has been closely linked to the Communist Party Of China, with the first and only license issued a non-university to grant LLB degrees that qualify holders for admission to practise law in NSW, and Australia.

The LPAB has as a consequence also granted Zhu powers under the Legal Profession Admission Rules to effectively determine that anyone who opposes him or his views, including his views of China, is denied admission to practise law in Australia.

The LPAB, and the AG NSW Mark Speakman who oversees the LPAB have recently renewed Zhu's liceneses and resisted all attempts at having them disclose the details of the approvals provided Zhu.There is evidence that Speakman has tabled in the NSW Parliament LPAB annual reports that have not disclosed fully the circumstances surrounding the unique and singular treatment accorded Zhu.

Under the circumstances the secrecy allowed the civil service so that it might fearlessly provide frank and impartial advice to the government of the day ought to be stripped away. 

TEQSA and the LPAB are of course not alone.Other examples include the civil servants responsible for approving the sale of the Port Of Darwin to Landbridge of China,and those who approved the sale of defence contractor John Holland to China Communications Construction Company. 

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See also

China-HK protest on Australian campuses but not at Minshen Zhu controlled campuses-Are legal profession admission rules being used (again ) to suppress complaints and protests

Her Excellency Gov Beazley has a duty to ensure her government's books accurately reflect Her Excellency's words, acts, legal rights and liabilities (especially when the claims are made by a stat body chaired by the Lt Gov, the CJ NSW Tom Bathurst)

by Ganesh Sahathevan

R-L: Susan (Bastick) Carter Director, Law Extension Committee (LEC) at University of Sydney with Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC Governor of New South Wales and Siew McKeogh, Executive Officer of the LPAB. The LPAB oversees the LEC's Diploma in Law as it does the College Of Law. These associations have resulted in a wagon fort like protection of one another, to the point where statutory reporting obligations are being ignored, to the detriment of students and the legal profession in NSW.


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The article below ,published by The Australian, has been in the public domain since January this year.It has not  the refuted and commented on in any way by the NSW Legal Professions Admission Board, which is chaired by the Chief Justice NSW Tom Bathurst, who is also the Lieutenant Governor.

The information includes reference to what the LPAB has described as defamation of the Her Excellency, Governor Margaret Beazley who was the relevant time President Of the Court Of Appeal NSW. LPAB documents state that the Governor was defamed by this writer by his publication of the Gulen movements well documented influence peddling here and overseas, among members of the judiciary who have included Her Excellency.

While the LPAB and Her Excellency are entitled to their view, that view needs to be clearly articulated in the LAPB's annual reports, which have already been shown to be deficient with regards entities under its purview.

The issue has also drawn the attention of successive ambassadors from Turkey.

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Bizarre claims used to deny lawyer certificate

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The body overseen by Chief Justice Tom Bathurst responsible for deciding who can practise law in NSW relied on a wildly defamatory Malaysian blog depicting ABC journalists, former British prime minister Tony Blair, financier George Soros and others as part of a global conspiracy when deciding to deny a would-be solicitor a certificate to practise.

Chief Justice Bathurst and Legal Practitioner Admission Board executive officer Louise Pritchard declined to answer The Australian’s questions about how the article came into the board’s hands and why its members felt the conspiracy-laden material could be relied upon as part of a decision to deny Sydney man Ganesh Sahathevan admission as a lawyer. Nor would either say which of the 10 members of the LPAB, three of whom are serving NSW Supreme Court judges, was on the deciding panel.

Ms Pritchard has left her role at the LPAB since The Australian began making inquiries in September. The article, published in December 2017 on website The Third Force, accuses Mr Sahathevan of engaging in a conspiracy to attack then Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak.

Mahathir Mohamad, who returned as prime minister after toppling Mr Najib in elections held last May, is also smeared as a participant in the globe-spanning conspiracy.

Mr Najib was under pressure at the time over the country’s sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB, which the US Department of Justice says has been looted of billions of dollars that was spent on property, art, jewels and the Leonardo DiCaprio film, The Wolf of Wall Street.

Malaysian authorities have charged Mr Najib with dozens of corruption offences that could attract decades in jail over his role in the 1MDB scandal, which allegedly included the flow of about $US1 billion through his personal bank account.

The article’s author, Malaysian political operative and Najib loyalist Raggie Jessy, also accused Rewcastle-Brown, Stein and Besser of receiving money, totalling millions of dollars, to participate in a Four Corners program exposing the 1MDB scandal that aired on the ABC in March 2016.

There is no suggestion any of Mr Jessy’s bizarre allegations are true. However, the LPAB cited the piece when denying Mr Sahathevan admission as a lawyer in an undated and unsigned set of reasons sent to him on August 3 last year.

It used the article as evidence in a passage dealing with legal conflicts between Mr Sahathevan, who has largely worked in the past as a journalist, his former employer, Malaysia’s Sun Media Group, and the company’s owner, tycoon Vincent Tan.

In that context, the board said the Third Force article reported “that Mr Sahathevan was investigated for blackmail, extortion, bribery and defamation”. While the article claims that blackmail, extortion, bribery and defamation “are but some of the transgressions many from around the world attribute” to Mr Sahathevan, The Australian was unable to find any reference in it to an investigation into him on these grounds.

It is unclear why the board felt the need to rely on the article, as it also made adverse findings about Mr Sahathevan’s character based on a series of other allegations including that he used “threatening and intimidating” language in emails to the College of Law and the NSW Attorney General and did not disclose his sacking from a previous job to the board.

Mr Sahathevan has denied the allegations in correspondence with the board. The board also cited evidence that one of Mr Sahathevan’s blogs on Malaysian politics was banned by the Najib regime as indicating his poor character.

In an email to Chief Justice Bathurst, sent on August 30, Rewcastle-Brown said her site, Sarawak Report, which exposed much of the 1MDB scandal, was banned by the Malaysian government.

“I along with other critics of the 1MDB scandal (which includes Mr Sahathevan) became the target of immense state-backed vilification, intimidation and online defamation campaigns on behalf of the Malaysian government,” she said.

She said the board’s use of the Third Force article against Mr Sahathevan displayed “a troubling level of misjudgment and poor quality research, giving a strong impression that someone seeking to find reasons to disqualify this candidate simply went through the internet looking for ‘dirt’ against him”.

“The Third Force has consistently been by far the most outlandish, libellous, vicious and frankly ludicrous of all the publications that were commissioned as part of former prime minister Najib Razak’s self-proclaimed ‘cyber army’ which he paid (and continues to pay) to defame his perceived enemies and critics,” she said.

Besser, who now works in the ABC’s London bureau, told The Australian: “It’s clearly nonsense and comes from the darkest corners of some pretty wild Malaysian conspiracy theorists.”Mr Sahathevan’s application is to be reconsidered at an LPAB meeting next month.

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Chinse naval vessel heading to New Zealand for under-the-radar visit--ship to practice navigating Cook Strait

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As China expert  Professor Anne-Marie Brady puts it: 

A Chinese naval vessel is making a trip to NZ to practice passing through Cook Strait I’d like to hear PLA-Navy explain why they need to know how to do this, & NZ govt explain why they permit it PLA-Naval Submarine Academy among trainees on the trip










Mow read what others including Xinhua have to say about the matter.

Chinese naval vessel heading to New Zealand for under-the-radar visit


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A Chinese naval vessel will soon dock in New Zealand waters for a visit that's gone unannounced by the Government.

The Qi Jiguang is a training ship currently on a two-month tour of the Asia-Pacific region. The vessel has already visited Brunei, East Timor and Papua New Guinea.
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) confirmed the upcoming visit but provided Newshub with no other details, directing questions to the Chinese Embassy.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) also declined to answer questions, suggesting NZDF and the embassy would be better equipped with information.


The Chinese Embassy did not immediately respond to Newshub's request for comment.


The NZDF has increased its engagement with China in recent years, and it's not unusual for our Navy vessels to go on short exchanges with the Chinese military.


New Zealand is responsible for patrolling a huge search and rescue area that stretches from Micronesia to Antarctica. Our limited naval capacity means we can't patrol the area on our own, so we partner with other nations such as China.


Anne-Marie Brady, the University of Canterbury's China expert, says visits from international military are generally kept quiet so as not to provoke the "hornet's nest" of potential protest.


"The Government's always very cautious about visits, they're unlikely to announce one ahead of time," she told Newshub.


She says there's bound to be some kind of official greeting party for the vessel, but it's likely to be kept on the down-low.


The Qi Jiguang is carrying a crew of 517 consisting mostly of cadets, according to Chinese media. Over the course of the tour students will be trained in geography, astronomical navigation and other sailing skills.



The state-run Xinhua News Agency reports the students will disembark at various foreign ports to visit other countries' warships, schools and training centres. It's unknown which New Zealand facilities they intend to visit, if any.


While Xinhua says the tour is to "deepen the friendship with the people of the visiting countries and show the good image of the Chinese navy", Voices of America reports the tour is intended to tighten China's claim on the contested South China Sea and spread goodwill in a region dominated by Australian influence.


In June three Chinese warships arrived in Sydney Harbour for an unannounced visit. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government was aware of the stopover ahead of time, and dismissed anger over the visit occurring on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.


Newshub.

Qi Jiguang Ship set sail to carry out the voyage internship mission

September 21, 2019 10:17:48 Source: People's Liberation Army Daily

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Qi Jiguang ship sailed from a military port in Dalian.

    At 10 o'clock on the morning of the 20th, our navy's new training ship, Ji Jiguang, carried 517 naval trainees and officers and men, set off from a military port in Dalian, Liaoning Province, and carried out voyage internship missions and visited Brunei, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, etc. An Asia-Pacific country, this is the second time that Ji Jiguang has carried out a long-distance internship mission after being listed.

    "The successor mission of Qi Jiguang Ship is completed, please set sail!" With the sound of military music, Qi Jiguang slowly sailed off the dock. On the deck, the stationed trainees and officers and men were full of energy, lined up neatly, and waved goodbye to the motherland and their loved ones.

    The mission was led by Yu Wenbing, political commissar of the Dalian Naval Academy, as the head of the maritime steering group. The trainees who came to the internship with the ship came from seven colleges including the Naval Dalian Naval Academy, the Naval Engineering University, the Naval Submarine Academy, the Naval Aviation University, the Naval Military Medical University, the Naval Service School, and the Naval Academy.

    During the two-month voyage, the Qijiguang ship will sail through the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the Java Sea, the Banda Sea, the Timor Sea, the Aravora Sea, etc., across the Taiwan Strait, the Karimata Strait, Torres. Important channel waterways such as the Straits, the Cook Strait, and the Dagu Strait.

    During the mission, the ship will organize students to carry out 27 different subject teaching and training courses such as geography and navigation, astronomical navigation, marine hydrometeorology, etc., to train students to have a good sailing style and enhance the professional quality of the navy. During the berthing of foreign ports, participants will be arranged to visit foreign warships, colleges and training facilities. Through the launch of the ship open day, deck reception and various cultural and sports activities, deepen the friendship with the people of the visiting countries and show the good image of the Chinese navy.

    Qi Jiguang Ship, No. 83, is a training ship detachment of the Dalian Naval Academy. Since his entry, he has participated in the completion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Navy, the multinational naval activities, the naval naval sea parade, the visit to the four countries of Europe and Asia, and the fourth phase of the National Student Military Training Camp.

    Leaders of relevant military units, representatives of officers and soldiers of the army, and representatives of family members of the visiting officers and men went to the terminal to see off. (Dawn Yu, Lin Fei)

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