Friday, August 5, 2022

Kathrina Lo, NSW Public Service Commissioner, was Dep Sec NSW Department who saw 3 NSW LPAB Executive Officers come, go and return; all three connected to the Zhu Minshen affair

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


Kathrina Lo, the NSW Public Service Commissioner who was questioned about her knowledge of the Barilaro affair  was Deputy  Secretary  NSW Department Of Justice who saw 3 NSW LPAB Executive Officers come and go, and in one case, return. All three are connected to the Zhu Minshen affair.


The rotation of the three,Chris Banks, Louis Pritchard and Siew Ting McKeogh and their part in the Zhu Minshen affair, has been reported previously on this blog: 
NSW LPAB rehires Christopher Banks, Executive Officer who oversaw approvals granted Zhu Minshen and his Top Group: NSW LPAB has had three EOs in under three years





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Friday, August 5, 2022

Kathrina Lo, NSW Public Service Commissioner, was Dep Sec NSW Dept Of Justice who oversaw the reaccreditation of Zhu Minsshen's authority to grant law degrees by Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, NSW LPAB Executive Officer ,despite the Sam Dastiyari political donation scandal.

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


a woman behind a desk and a microphone
Public Service Commissioner Kathrina Lo has given evidence on the fifth day of the John Barilaro inquiry.(ABC News)


Kathrina Lo, NSW Public Service Commissioner, was Dep Sec NSW Dept Of Justice who oversaw the reaccreditation of Zhu Minsshen's authority to grant law degrees by Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, NSW LPAB Executive Officer ,despite the Sam Dastiyari political donation scandal. 

The following excerpts are from Lo's Linkedin profile: 



Lo has giving evidence before the enquiry into John Barilaro's New York appointment.



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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw the review of Zhu Minshen & Top Group's license to grant LB degrees was replaced soon after renewal of that license: NSW LPAB Chair Tom Bathurst maintains silence despite controversy surrounding Zhu and Top

by Ganesh Sahathevan


As Chief Justice Tom Bathurst has been intent on pursuing a social 
and political agenda. In doing so he has walked into a matter
of national security.In doing so he seems to have neglected his actual duties. 


Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, the NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw  the review  of Zhu Minshen and  Top Group's license to grant LB degrees,  has been replaced after just eight or so months on the job. 

 She was replaced soon after the  review was successfully completed, and signed off on 29 June 2019, just one day before the end of  the financial year. That fortuitous timing allowed Zhu to report in his year end financial reports that his review "went smoothly" .  

The timing also saved the  NSW LPAB from having to report any delay , exception or qualification to that review. The NSW LPAB were able to do so despite the adverse media reports against Zhu and Top Group. 


The Chairman of the NSW LPAB , Chief Justice Tom Bathurst, has maintained his silence despite the controversy surrounding Zhu. 


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Friday, September 27, 2019

Zhu Minshen announces that NSW LPAB review "went smoothly": AG NSW Mark Speakman and officers unconcerned by Clive Hamilton's disclosures of threats, intimidation and defiance of AFP directives ,share price collapse

by Ganesh Sahathevan



The LPAB''s tick of approval does not seem to have reversed the downward trend in share price.Indeed it does look as if the LPAB has ignored all together the fact that Top's market capitalisation has collapsed since listing. Note that Top's shareprice has fallen 14.29% over the past month,compared to 1.13% for the overall market as measured by the Hang Seng Index

In the words of Zhu Minshen, chairman and CEO of his Top Education Group Ltd:



Bachelor of Law Re-accreditation 

The scheduled re-accreditation process of our Bachelor of Laws (‘‘LLB’’) went smoothly. On 27 June 2019, TOP received formal notification from the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales (‘‘LPAB’’) to accredit TOP’s LLB for a further five-year period commencing from the notification date.
(TOP EDUCATION GROUP LTD
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTSFOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019)




All this despite the revelations of open defiance of an AFP directive, threats and intimidation disclosed in Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion",which have been previously reported on this blog:

In his 2018 book "Silent Invasion" Professor Clive Hamilton reports that Top Education Group's Zhu Minshen organised  students , including students from his Top Education Institute to protest  against Tibetans at the  2008 rally , which counted towards the Top students’ assessment.  Zhu’s Top Institution is “perhaps the only accredited degree program in Australia that counts agitating for a foreign power towards its qualifications.”


Hamilton provides details of Zhu's Communist Party China antecedents and his organisation of the 30,000 strong demonstration by Chinese students at the Canberra torch relay, many of them brandishing Chinese flags.

This was clearly an open challenge to the authority , and in public defiance  of, the AFP's directive to Chinese government security that they were not to be involved in the torch relay. As Hamilton puts is "ASIO shat themselves".

Despite this open defiance of the law that they are meant to defend and uphold the Attorney General NSW Mark Speakman and the other senior judicial officers at the LPAB determined that an exception should  be made to allow Zhu to operate the "first and only" law school in Australia that is not part of a university.


END 

See Also 



Law Council Australia 's exception for Zhu Minshen despite Law Council declaring China's justice system "a joke"







Malaysian timber tycoons working with China in Solomon Islands betrayed by their Sibu,Sarawak Communist Party China antecedents

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


The Google translated  story below from Sina.com tells of Hii Yii Ging, Consul of Malaysia in Solomon Islands leading a delegation to China in 2018.The delegation included Lawrence Wong, Chairman of Solomon Timber Union.

ABC 4 Corners has provided details of how Malaysian and Chinese timber companies have taken control of Solomon Islands. It is not unlikely that the  Malaysian timber companies are acting as Chinese Trojan Horses.

To understand why one has only to look at the Sibu, Sarawak, antecedents of the Malaysian timber men active in Solomons.

Sibu was the epicentre of Communist Party China sponsored acts of terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s, and the CPC had the support of a number of well known, wealthy local Chinese timber tycoons. In the early 70s the Malaysian Government executed Operation Judas, in which many of the Sibu tycoons were arrested. They were released from detention only after they agreed to renounce their CPC leanings.

That they did so at that point was not surprising. They faced the loss of their wealth and were made to clean toilets with toothbrushes presumably as a foretaste of what a life in poverty could mean.

50 years later Solomon Islands may well provide an avenue to further the CPC cause, denied them in Malaysia.


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  This group of special guests came from the beautiful Solomon Islands, the pearl of the distant South Pacific. They were led by Hii Yii Ging, Consul of Malaysia in Solomon, Lawrence Wong, Chairman of Solomon Timber Union, and Mr. Cheng Xiaorong, founder and chairman of Lezai Wood. Friendly and cordial talks.

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  Is it a pleasure to have friends from afar?  ——Lezai Wood welcomes Solomon VIP guests

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Kathrina Lo, NSW Public Service Commissioner, was Dep Sec NSW Dept Of Justice who oversaw the reaccreditation of Zhu Minsshen's authority to grant law degrees by Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, NSW LPAB Executive Officer ,despite the Sam Dastiyari political donation scandal.

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


a woman behind a desk and a microphone
Public Service Commissioner Kathrina Lo has given evidence on the fifth day of the John Barilaro inquiry.(ABC News)


Kathrina Lo, NSW Public Service Commissioner, was Dep Sec NSW Dept Of Justice who oversaw the reaccreditation of Zhu Minsshen's authority to grant law degrees by Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, NSW LPAB Executive Officer ,despite the Sam Dastiyari political donation scandal. 

The following excerpts are from Lo's Linkedin profile: 



Lo has giving evidence before the enquiry into John Barilaro's New York appointment.



TO BE READ WITH 



Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw the review of Zhu Minshen & Top Group's license to grant LB degrees was replaced soon after renewal of that license: NSW LPAB Chair Tom Bathurst maintains silence despite controversy surrounding Zhu and Top

by Ganesh Sahathevan


As Chief Justice Tom Bathurst has been intent on pursuing a social 
and political agenda. In doing so he has walked into a matter
of national security.In doing so he seems to have neglected his actual duties. 


Siew Ting Tan McKeogh, the NSW LPAB Executive Officer who oversaw  the review  of Zhu Minshen and  Top Group's license to grant LB degrees,  has been replaced after just eight or so months on the job. 

 She was replaced soon after the  review was successfully completed, and signed off on 29 June 2019, just one day before the end of  the financial year. That fortuitous timing allowed Zhu to report in his year end financial reports that his review "went smoothly" .  

The timing also saved the  NSW LPAB from having to report any delay , exception or qualification to that review. The NSW LPAB were able to do so despite the adverse media reports against Zhu and Top Group. 


The Chairman of the NSW LPAB , Chief Justice Tom Bathurst, has maintained his silence despite the controversy surrounding Zhu. 


TO BE READ WITH


Friday, September 27, 2019

Zhu Minshen announces that NSW LPAB review "went smoothly": AG NSW Mark Speakman and officers unconcerned by Clive Hamilton's disclosures of threats, intimidation and defiance of AFP directives ,share price collapse

by Ganesh Sahathevan



The LPAB''s tick of approval does not seem to have reversed the downward trend in share price.Indeed it does look as if the LPAB has ignored all together the fact that Top's market capitalisation has collapsed since listing. Note that Top's shareprice has fallen 14.29% over the past month,compared to 1.13% for the overall market as measured by the Hang Seng Index

In the words of Zhu Minshen, chairman and CEO of his Top Education Group Ltd:



Bachelor of Law Re-accreditation 

The scheduled re-accreditation process of our Bachelor of Laws (‘‘LLB’’) went smoothly. On 27 June 2019, TOP received formal notification from the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales (‘‘LPAB’’) to accredit TOP’s LLB for a further five-year period commencing from the notification date.
(TOP EDUCATION GROUP LTD
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTSFOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019)




All this despite the revelations of open defiance of an AFP directive, threats and intimidation disclosed in Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion",which have been previously reported on this blog:

In his 2018 book "Silent Invasion" Professor Clive Hamilton reports that Top Education Group's Zhu Minshen organised  students , including students from his Top Education Institute to protest  against Tibetans at the  2008 rally , which counted towards the Top students’ assessment.  Zhu’s Top Institution is “perhaps the only accredited degree program in Australia that counts agitating for a foreign power towards its qualifications.”


Hamilton provides details of Zhu's Communist Party China antecedents and his organisation of the 30,000 strong demonstration by Chinese students at the Canberra torch relay, many of them brandishing Chinese flags.

This was clearly an open challenge to the authority , and in public defiance  of, the AFP's directive to Chinese government security that they were not to be involved in the torch relay. As Hamilton puts is "ASIO shat themselves".

Despite this open defiance of the law that they are meant to defend and uphold the Attorney General NSW Mark Speakman and the other senior judicial officers at the LPAB determined that an exception should  be made to allow Zhu to operate the "first and only" law school in Australia that is not part of a university.


END 

See Also 



Law Council Australia 's exception for Zhu Minshen despite Law Council declaring China's justice system "a joke"








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Thursday, August 4, 2022

Malaysia,Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines permitted Pelosi's plane to transit via their airspace to reach Taiwan- ASEAN 4 have demonstrated that they can work with the US to support Taiwan, and attack China ,if required

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 






While the SCMP and others have reported that Nancy Pelosi took a three to four hour detour to get to Taiwan from Malaysia none have asked why Malaysia,Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines permitted Pelosi's plane to transit via their airspace en route Taiwan. All four ASEAN members could have denied permission leaving Pelosi's plane to navigate the direct route over the South China Sea. 

There is in fact the direct KL-Taipei route utilised by EVA Air, which flies closer to Malaysia and the Philippines, well away from China. In any case, the route is a busy commercial route, so harassment by PLA Airforce assets would have been difficult, and quite unlikely. 


    

It does then seem that the ASEAN 4 have decided that they needed to demonstrate that they can work with the US to support Taiwan, and  attack China ,if required.

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Albo still lying about Sun Cable and its potential - other claims of jobs, investment and lower cost that are to flow from his climate bill unreliable

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 




Australian Prime Minister Anthony "Albo" Albanese has claimed that Sun Cable will provide solar power to Singapore, from a battery of solar panels in Northern Australia: 

I'll make this this point as well about the Sun Cable project. One, it is the largest by a long way. Overwhelmingly the largest solar project in the world on the planet, and that is very exciting for us. The other thing is I have had discussions with Mike Cannon-Brookes and others connected with Sun Cable about how we maximise Australian input there. So areas like the production of the cable itself, this is a manufacturing boom that we have potentially here in Australia.



Singapore's Channel News Asia on the other hand says: 

Sun Cable still needs the green light to be able to transmit its solar energy in a few year's time. 


"Albo" has just gained support for his climate change bill, which is predicated on his theory that renewable energy projects like Sun Cable will generate economic gains that will exceed the cost to the Australian economy that will arise from the "transition" away from fossil fuels. 

He continues to lie about the Sun Cable project, and hence his claims for about Australia's future without fossil fuels are doubtful. A downward re-rating of Australia's economic prospects is likely.


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Transcript from PM Albanese's official website, containing his latest claims about Sun Cable. 


NORTHERN TERRITORY CHIEF MINISTER: It's a unique opportunity to work with a Federal Labor Government that believes in climate change, believes we need to shift across to renewables. We have enormous opportunity here in the Northern Territory. I think COVID put us on the radar with the Howard Springs facility, but the rest of Australia is waking up. We have natural resources, we have solar, we have NASA and so it's an exciting time. So I look forward to working with the incoming Commonwealth Government that Sun Cable project is huge and every Australian should go and Google it after they watch the news tonight and see the investment in the Northern Territory and the fact that we will have a cable linking Australia to Singapore and this is an exciting opportunity for us to have our renewables going offshore, giving us economic opportunity. Thank you.

PRIME MINISTER: I'll make this this point as well about the Sun Cable project. One, it is the largest by a long way. Overwhelmingly the largest solar project in the world on the planet, and that is very exciting for us. The other thing is I have had discussions with Mike Cannon-Brookes and others connected with Sun Cable about how we maximise Australian input there. So areas like the production of the cable itself, this is a manufacturing boom that we have potentially here in Australia. It's what, when I spoke about a feature made in Australia during the campaign, it's exactly that. We have, there isn't a solar panel in the world that doesn't have Australian IP involved. Whether it's ANU or UNSW, we need to maximise Australian input.