by Ganesh Sahathevan
The Australian Government and its security agencies, the Australian Security And Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Federal Police are in a strange position . On the one hand they have expelled Chinese spies, and Chinese reporters who had acted as spies, On the other hand they have allowed a Chinese Communist Party linked businessman, Zhu Minshen, and his companies, to continue issuing Australian law degrees and remain an integral part of Australia's legal establishment.
That privilege, previously reserved only for Australia's public universities, was granted Zhu despite his open, public defiance of AFP directives, and his interference in Australian politics.
The problem cannot be ignored, and Australian authorities should not be shy to learn from the experience of Singapore and Malaysia who have dealt with the matter of Communist Party China interference for more than 50 years.
As reported previously, Zhu's licenses need to be withdrawn, and his law school merged into one of the exisiting schools of law. Naturally, those responsible for issuing and then re-issuing the license in the first place, the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board and its chairman, the Chief Justice of NSW Tom Bathrust, must also be investigated. These persons must mot e exempted, or provided any sort of immunity given their standing in the judicial system.
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Saturday, May 23, 2020
Lee Kuan Yew's solution to the problem of Nanyang University a way out of the problem of Zhu Minshen's Top Group and Sydney City School Of Law
The security and intelligence issues with regards Zhu Minshen and his Top Education Group's one and only license to grant law degrees are escalating given the growing tensions between Australia and China.
The license has been used to establish the Sydney City School Of Law, which https://ganeshsahathevan.blogspot.com/2020/02/surprised-that-anyone-in-their-right.html?fbclid=IwAR0aYumIrRLFea5Q1_9f2T-JmyDGjucgFVW6u731keFs87i7M-3ToUl6g3k
The issues faced here are not very different from that faced by the Government of Singapore in 1963, with regards the Communist Party Of China backed Nanyang University.
Outlining the problem then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said:
One special problem in education is how to check the nation from being undermined by Communist groups recruiting and training in some Chinese schools and in Nanyang University; and in Nanyang University the Communists may confuse some people into believing that action meant to restrict their conspiracy is a violation of some sacred principle.
Nanyang University Council has hitherto spurned every Government grant to help it raise its standards and put its organisation into shape, largely because the Communists have been able to manipulate some leaders of the Chinese merchant community who have pretensions to greatness to perhaps inherit the mantle of another Chinese patriot like the late Tan Kah Kee.
In Nanyang University with their financial autonomy leaving them in an academic morass, a situation is developing, which, if left unchecked within five years, will make it a University of Yenan more than of Nanyang with young pro-Communist graduates and student leaders manipulating the entire governing Council of Nanyang University. Professors and lecturers on year to year contracts renewable at will of the Council cannot have economic security, let alone academic freedom. Indeed, the problems of Nanyang can never be resolved until the political abuse the Communists make of it is exposed and stopped.
Only a few days ago, the Communists manipulated Nanyang University Students’ Union issued a statement declaring that the University Council should discontinue discussions with the Government on aid and reorganisation and without supervision and refuse any financial aid unless given unconditionally.
It is the duty of the Government to raise academic standards in Nanyang University and give it as much assistance as it gives to the University of Singapore. But it is also the duty of the Government to see that none of this money is allowed to be expended on strengthening the intellectual cadre of the Communist Party of Malaya.
Members will agree that it is not the business of our Government to give money to help train more Communist cadres to destroy the democratic state.
The problem the Australian Government faces with regards Top Group and its soon to be admitted lawyers is in a sense more insidious for with the license to grant law degrees comes inclusion into the regulatory bodies that govern the legal system in Australia. That Commonwealth funding in the form of FEE HELP is being used to further Zhu's activities in China is a matter of public record.
Lee's solution to the Nanyang problem was to simply absorb Nanyang into the then Singapore University, to establish the new National University Of Singapore. Similarly the solution to the problem of Zhu Minshen's license to issue law degrees would be to absorb students enrolled pursuant to that license into one or a range of existing law schools. Enrolment of new students can be halted, and the license suspended. The grounds for doing so are many and varied, but the conduct of the NSW LPAB in issuing and reviewing that license would be a good place to start.
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"The fishy smell around Zhu Minshen's Top Education Institute": Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion" raises questions for NSW AG Mark Speakman & the LPAB
NSW LPAB granted Zhu Minshen his license to grant LLBs despite Law Society WA complaining of oversupply of lawyers:NSW LPAB said it consulted with other states before granting Zhu his "one and only" license
Did the Law Council Australia and the NSW LPAB ignore ASIO advice in granting Zhu Minshen the right to grant LLB degrees, and entree into Australia's legal system?
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