Muslim Legal Network advice Dutton objected to remained on Muslim Legal Network website when then CJ NSW Chief Justice praised the MLN for upholding the law -Judges have made themselves vulnerable to foreign interference

by Ganesh Sahathevan

22 February 2023

The story below is being republished given the revelations today that  judicial figures are being targeted by foreign espionage agencies at "unprecedented" levels

The Chief Justice praised the MLN's work at their Iftar Dinner held in May 2019.The Chief Justice's short speech is worth hearing in full before reading the article below.

The advice of the Muslim Legal Network NSW  that then Minister For Home Affairs Peter Dutton objected to remains on their website, despite reports to the contrary (see story below).

The advice, which has the effect of assisting in the concealment of evidence that police and intelligence agencies rely on to  prevent terrorism offences and other acts of violence was expressed in the following terms: 

(Screenshot captured on Wednesday 20 February 2020 of MLN document at  embedded link)



Despite that defiance of  Dutton's concerns then  Chief Justice Of NSW Mr Thomas Bathurst  praised the work of the MLN in upholding the rule of law, in his words, "difficult to see how you can do it any better"(paraphrase).
It is hard to imagine that the Chief Justice, his staff in chambers, and at the NSW LPAB of which he is chairman, would have missed the document.
As this writer and no doubt others have discovered, the Chief Justice's subordinates are especially skilled  in sweeping the Internet for anything of interest. 

Judges like Bathurst have made themselves vulnerable to foreign interference. 

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The Muslim Legal Network of NSW has caved to the government and will change its advice to travellers following concerns it was providing information that could help potential terrorists evade authorities.

The Australian reported yesterday the network told members to clear their mobile phone storage and delete social media threads, messaging apps and violent images before travelling overseas.

Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton wrote to the body, declaring his concern the guidance could be interpreted as advice to conceal illegal activity.

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MLN NSW said yesterday that the advice was in line with recommendations from the Australian Border Force, leading to condemnation from Mr Dutton.

“Misrepresentation of advice from the Australian Border Force is a pathetic response,” a spokesman for Mr Dutton said. “The organisation’s abrogation of their responsibility is unacceptable.”

The guide, Anti-Terrorism Laws: ASIO, the Police and You, was first published in 2004, amid concerns they were complex and difficult to comprehend at the time.

It has been updated several times, with the latest edition reflecting the introduction of new legislation rolled out since 2014, including the creation of the new offences of advocating terrorism and genocide and travelling to declared areas.

MLN said in a statement ­yesterday it would amend the guidelines but denied the publication could help criminals evade detection.

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Guide encouraging Muslim travellers to ‘clear out’ their social media threads has come under fire

THE travel tips encourage Australian Muslims travelling overseas to “clear out” their telephone storage, including WhatsApp and social media.

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Guide encouraging Muslim travellers to ‘clear out’ their social media threads has come under fire. Photo: AFP/Yasser Al-ZayyatSource:AFP

AN AUSTRALIAN Muslim organisation has been criticised for potentially encouraging travellers to conceal information from border authorities after it advised Australian Muslims to clear out their telephone storage and social media threads when travelling overseas.

A fact sheet published by the Muslim Legal Network NSW provided tips for those planning to travel overseas, suggesting they should be cautious of their digital footprint.

It advises that Muslims should “know what is stored on your electronic devices” and to “clear out your telephone storage”, including WhatsApp and Facebook threads, as well as “delete any photos or videos that could be misinterpreted as portraying or encouraging acts of violence”.

The travel tips were published in the latest version of the Muslim Legal Network’s guide to Australia’s anti-terrorism laws, and also includes 13 other tips including pack your own bag and ensure you have valid travel documents before arriving at the airport.

In addition, it provides information about who the Australian Border Force is and what their powers and responsibilities are.

Muslim travellers have been urged to take stock of their digital footprint. Photo: Carl Court/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

However, the guide sparked concern from the Australian government, who were afraid it could encourage would-be terrorists to evade authorities.

In a statement to The Australian, Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said the travel tips made him “very concerned” and that he would be demanding clarification on “what purpose is served in providing the advice”.

“In the current international climate, I am very concerned this guidance could be interpreted as advice to evade Border Force and conceal illegal activity,” Mr Dutton wrote.

“Australian Border Force protects Australians and non-Australians alike, as they cross our borders every day. It is important that we provide whatever support we can to enable these officers to undertake their duties effectively.”

The Muslim Legal Network NSW has since responded to Mr Dutton’s comments saying it is “disappointed” the advice was misconstrued in such a sinister manner.

It claimed the advice is in line with the Australian Border Force’s own guidelines and was published to educate travellers so they can better understand and abide by their obligations under the law.

“The information provided in the Publication is consistent with both the Australian Border Force’s border clearance fact sheet for Hajj pilgrims and the advice provided by the Australian Signals Directorate, ‘Travelling overseas with an electronic device’,” the organisation said in a statement.

“The Publication in no way seeks to instruct individuals on ways in which to evade detection of criminal activities and to impose such a sinister interpretation is misleading and a great disappointment to the many experts who have worked tirelessly to fill an information gap for the community on Australia’s complex counter terrorism legislation.

The latest guide comes after the US announced laptop restrictions on flights originating from 10 airports in largely Muslim countries. Photo: AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMROSource:AFP

Despite this, the Muslim Legal Network NSW said it would amend the publication to make it “abundantly clear” that the purpose is to advise community members to be mindful of inadvertent acts that can cause “unwarranted suspicion”.

“The aim of the MLN NSW has been and remains, service to our community through advocacy and educational programs aimed at raising awareness of the law and assisting people to act within its boundaries.”

The guide, called Anti-Terrorism Laws: ASIO, the Police and You, was first published in 2004 in response to a desire within the Muslim community to better under­stand emerging terror laws.

UK Prevent scheme has determined that Yes Minister encourages far right extremism- Minister for Youth & Early Education Anne Aly's PAVE has similar objectives to Prevent, and Aly still refuses to explain anomalies in PAVE 's finances

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                                              

                 Anne Aly in Parliament . PM Albanese has promised a review of counter-terrorism measures but has s said nothing about the Muslim Brotherhood   

The Daily Mail UK has recently brought this too public attention: 

The flagship Prevent scheme, recently the subject of a scathing audit, singled out comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare as possible red flags of extremism.

Prevent's methods are not different from that of Australia's PAVE, which was founded by Labor MP Anne Aly, and who was recently appointed Minister for Youth & Early Education. Aly is considered an expert on counter-terrorism on the basis of her PhD in Communications. Her early practical work in the area included work for the  Australian Media Monitors group in which Zulfikar Shariff was an active member, and which he  probably led sometime between 2000 and 2007.Shariff was until recently detained in Singapore for supporting ISIS. He fled Singapore after supporting Al-Qaeda. 

Like Prevent, ALy has been very concerned about white right-wing extremism, but had said nothing about the Muslim Brotherhood which remains active in Australia, despite being banned in even Saudi Arabia. 

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Labor MP Anne Aly Cannot Explain Where Money From Her Government Funded NGO Has Gone To 

by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Anne Azza Aly

Labor MP Anne Azza Aly is founding chairperson of People Against Violent Extremism (PAVE), a charity registered with the Australian Charities And Not For Profits Commission.

 As of November 2016 PAVE's statutory filing of financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2015  remained overdue.When this was made known to media in November last year by this writer,  she responded via an email demanding to know what this writer could do to help her meet her reporting obligations (I kid you not).

When the accounts were finally lodged,the accounts showed that some AUD 210,000 in government funding was explained away in just two items; "Other Expenses" and a "Surplus",which has presumably been retained by Ms Aly.

INCOME STATEMENT

For the Period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015 (if different provide range below)

to

Income/Receipts $ Government Grants 208,732 Donations and bequests 2,200 Other Income/Receipts 7,530 Total Income/Receipts 218,462 Expenses/Payments $ Employee expenses/payments 8,131 Grant and donations made by the registered entity for use in Australia 0 Grants and donations made by the registered entity for use outside Australia 0 Other expenses/payments 118,844 Total expenses/payments 126,975 Net surplus/deficit 91,487

No auditor would pass this set of accounts,yet the AG 's Department seems to have done precisely that,for  PAVE has reporting obligations to the Commonwealth AG. 

As for Aly, silence prevails on all matters raised, including her connections with Malaysia.

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INCOME STATEMENT

For the Period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015 (if different provide range below)

to

Income/Receipts $ Government Grants 208,732 Donations and bequests 2,200 Other Income/Receipts 7,530 Total Income/Receipts 218,462 Expenses/Payments $ Employee expenses/payments 8,131 Grant and donations made by the registered entity for use in Australia 0 Grants and donations made by the registered entity for use outside Australia 0 Other expenses/payments 118,844 Total expenses/payments 126,975 Net surplus/deficit 91,487 BALANCE SHEET EXTRACT Total assets 0 Total liabilities 0 Net Assets/Liabilities 0

2015 Financial Report

"Other" in accounting terms means miscellaneous and that is how Anne Aly MP explains spending the bulk of a government grant.

Other expenses/payments

118,844

The quantum of the next largest item is only $ 8,131. Consequently, more than 93% of outflows have not been identified.

The ultimate destination of the  surplus of $ 91487,or 42% of the total inflows  is also not  explained.

Therefore only 3.7 % of the total income of the charity (almost all of which is in the form of a  government  grant of about $210,000)  is accounted for.

Posted 9th April 2017 by Ganesh Sahathevan

The Australia-Indonesia border remains in dispute and Indonesia can rely on The Voice referendum to win its case - Indonesia can ignore the colonial era border once Australia recognises "First Nations" sovereignty, and there will be Indonesian natives who can claim to be Australian Aboriginals or Torres Straits islanders.

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

    Source:  Renegotiating the Indonesia-Australia Maritime Boundary Agreement?
        24 APR 2018 By Dr I Made Andi Arsana

IThe Indonesia-Australia border remains in dispute and Indonesia has shown that it intends expanding its border at every opportunity.    The border as it stands was inherited from their respective colonial founders  pursuant to the principle of uti possidetis .  The Indonesian Government is happy to accept that it was created by the Dutch, who conquered and consolidated the island chain that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Sulu Sea, but Australia on the hand is currently considering a constitutional amendment that is intended to consolidate the claims of hundreds perhaps thousands of small Aboriginal tribes  over the Commonwealth Of Australia. 

This recognition, if formalised  by a constitutional amendment, has the potential to undermine Australia's border for if the Australian Government does not recognise its creation by the United Kingdom, then there is no need for any other country to do so.   

Additionally, if rights in Australia are to be determined by membership of some undefined "First Nations" then there may well be  persons in Indonesia that can claim Aboriginal and First Nations heritage. It will be remiss of the  Indonesian Government to not take advantage of that likelihood to expand its borders. 

The Indonesians can be expected to have already investigated  the claims that Makassans may have to Arnhem Land. The Australians on the other hand, led by their new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, do no appear to have even considered the issue.

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I'm only part Hakka, my Cantonese and Hakka people control business in Sabah and Malaysia, I went to private schools , as a schoolgirl I toured Europe with my father, and one of my brother's is active in a United Front linked organisation - Senator Penny Wong's life story is far from what she declared to the Senate in 2002

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

This was Penny Wong addressing the Senate in 2002: 

My thoughts this morning were of my late paternal grandmother or Poh Poh, as I called her in her language. She was a diminutive woman with an indomitable spirit. A Chinese woman of the Hakka or guest people, she was my grandfather's second wife. When the war came to Malaysia.

 To my father, I wish you could have been here, but know that you taught me many things that I can draw on, now and tomorrow. To my mother, your intellect, mischievousness, sense of humour and unfailing love sustain me.

I want to make special mention of my younger brother Toby, who turned 30 on the day I was elected to this place, and died 10 days later. Your life and death ensure that I shall never forget what it is like for those who are truly marginalised.

Speaking to SBS to mark her entry to the Senate:

‘It was difficult to come to a place that I experienced as pretty hostile at times’

It was a tough transition for the eight-year-old Wong, who moved with her mother and brother to Adelaide following a family split.

Not only did she leave behind her father, her new home welcomed the future politician with racism and marginalisation, something she has repeatedly addressed in the Senate since her maiden speech in 2002.

Wong says it was difficult adjusting to life in Australia, which she describes as “pretty hostile at times”, but moving on from her Malaysian upbringing became easier with time.

“Obviously, nothing stays difficult forever,” she says.

Left unsaid is the fact that the Hakka control Sabah business and politics.They are not the poor homeless wanderers Wong made them out to be.

Additionally Wong  has recently been disclosed in that King's College speech that her  father is part Cantonese, of that clan which controls a significant amount of business throughout Malaysia. 

Life for her father has not been bad. In his words:

Francis Wong makes the point that foreign students, who had spent a number of their impressionable years in Australia, have a special affinity with the country.

"As a young man in Adelaide, I thought the Australian public was helpful, kind and generous.

"Lecturers would give whatever help required to those who were keen to learn. Farmers and factory owners were happy to provide summer jobs to Asians, and paid them fairly.

"And Rotary clubs were constantly inviting us to attend their functions where we sampled the best food and wine," he said

He also says: 

 During my sabbatical leave in the early 1980s I had spent sketching trips in Europe and elsewhere while taking Penny and her brother on holidays."

Penny was born in 1968,and would have been in her early teens at the time.

Francis Wong was also able to provide quite well for Penny ,sending her to a private school, Kinabalu International School, in Malaysia, a luxury for most Malaysians even now. In Australia she attended Scotch College, reputedly the most expensive in South Australia. 

All this is very far from the hard luck story Australians were told in 2002. Importantly it omitted any mention of her siblings in Malaysia, a matter revealed by media in Malaysia but which remains unreported in Australia. Her brother James Wong is a member of the   Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce, which is linked to China's United Front Works Department.

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James Wong, brother of FM Penny Wong's United Front connections matters given Malaysia's history with Chinese businessmen working with the Communist Party China to undermine the country

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

Malaysia's The Star reveals details of Foreign Minister Penny Wong's Malaysian 

siblings not made known to Australians - Revelation further complicates relations 

between Wong & the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, of which she is now 

minister in charge

 

The revelation that Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has an extended family in Malaysia that includes brother James Wong, who  is active in the  Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce, raises a number of security issues in Australia and Malaysia given  Malaysia's history  with Chinese businessmen working with the Communist Party China to undermine the country.

That effort seems to be ongoing, despite the execution of Operation Judas in the 1970s (see story below).