Monday, September 9, 2019

Law Council Australia can help remove Minshen Zhu''s cover that adds to his capacity to defy Australian security: That would be better than Arthur Moses SC lecturing HK lawyers to stand-up to China

by Ganesh Sahathevan


A few other Australians can be spotted in footage of the event, which was attended by Xi Jinping and Politburo Standing Committee Member Wang Yang. Here is Zhu Minshen, who famously paid Sam Dastyari's travel bill, shaking hands with Papa Xi 4/


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3:59 PM · May 31, 2019·@alexjoske
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


It has been reported on this blog that the Attorney General of NSW Mark Speakman SC and senior judicial officers at the Legal Profession Admission Board NSW  ignored the fact that Zhu Minshen undermined an Australian Federal Police directive.

As reported,  he did so when  he organised  students , including students from his Top Education Institute to counter  Tibetan  protesters  at the  2008 Olympic Torch rally in Canberra.
Despite that clear undermining of Australian law and order Zhu was granted, with Law Society Of Australia approval, the "first and only" license granted a private company that is not a university.
With that license comes the right to effectively veto an application by any graduate of his law school to seek admission to be admitted to practice law in NSW and Australia. This right gives him enormous power over his students to ensure that their views of the Chinese Government do not differ from his own.It also helps justify his defiance if not brush over his open defiance of  Australian security agencies and police.


Meanwhile, the Law Society Australia's president Arthur Moses SC has taken it upon himself to lecture Hong Kong's lawyers on their responsibility to uphold the law.
Clearly, Moses and the LSA would better serve their HK counterparts by removing the cover they and the Australian legal establishment provide Misnhen Zhu.
The above adds to the story below, published on September 1 2019, where it has been shown that the approvals Moses, his LSA and the legal establishment granted Zhu are being used to partially fund Zhu's business with a facial recognition company linked to the Chinese Government. 

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Sunday, September 1, 2019


Law Soc Australia cannot lecture Chinese lawyers while it provides cover to CPC linked Minshen Zhu

by Ganesh Sahathevan




A few other Australians can be spotted in footage of the event, which was attended by Xi Jinping and Politburo Standing Committee Member Wang Yang. Here is Zhu Minshen, who famously paid Sam Dastyari's travel bill, shaking hands with Papa Xi 4/



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The AFR reported on 8 August 2019:
The president of Australia’s peak legal body has told leaders of the profession in China that there is no rule of law in their country and they need to speak up and challenge the government.

“I was direct with my colleagues in the legal profession in China,” Mr Moses told The Australian Financial Review.

“I told them that you cannot use rhetoric to claim there is the rule of law in China when you don’t have an independent judiciary, detainees are denied access to lawyers and lawyers are imprisoned for seemingly doing their job by representing persons who may have a contrary view to the government.

“That is not the rule of law. That is rule by law.”
(see Law Council boss ticks off China lawyers)y


Meanwhile Mr Moses' Law Society Australia , the NSW Law Society and Legal Professional Admission Board, which is under the purview of Mr Moses' fellow senior counsel, Mr Mark Speakman SC,have provided the Communist Party Of China (CPC) linked Minshen Zhu the credibility and standing of an Australian law school chancellor , and with it the funding and cover to help further develop the CPC's surveillance infrastructure:




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NSW AG attempted to evade information and queries on political donor Minshen Zhu: AG has a duty to ensure that Zhu is registered as a foreign agent, but instead grants Zhu rights,privileges, never before (and since) granted a private entity


Sunday, September 8, 2019

AG NSW Speakman and senior judicial officers at the LPAB ignored the fact that Zhu Minshen undermined an Australian Federal Police directive

by Ganesh Sahathevan




France 24 reported in 2008:
To minimize the risk of disruption during the torch relay in Canberra, the Australian government has decided not to allow Chinese security in the Olympic torch's path.








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.

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Sunday, September 8, 2019


"The fishy smell around Zhu Minshen's Top Education Institute": Clive Hamilton's "Silent Invasion" raises questions for NSW AG Mark Speakman & the LPAB

by Ganesh Sahathevan


Troy Grant MP

NSW Libs received donations of $44,275 from TOP Education Grosup 
 all details in the LPAB Annual Reports

In "Silent Invasion"   Professor Clive Hamilton  describes how  Zhu Minshen and his Top Education Institute(and other Chinese entities) interfere  in Australian politics.The section on Zhu and Top begins :
"Few people noticed, but the  fishy smell around Zhu Minshen's Top Education Institute was noticeable a few years before it began wafting from the front pages of the newspaper (such as the AFR in 2013)".

In 2012  the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board , a statutory body chaired by the Chief Justice NSW and under the purview of the Attorney General NSW ,began the process that led to Zhu and his Top Group being granted the "first and only"  license to issue law degrees granted a private  company that is not a university.

The notoriety that Zhu and Top Group had gained since 2013,and especially in 2016 seems to have been ignored in the process of evaluating Zhu's application, despite the very high standards of probity the LPAB ,the Chief Justice and the AG profess for anyone seeking admission to practice in NSW.

In  comparison Hamilton reports that in 2013 the then Labor Minister for Higher  Education, Kim Carr, rejected Zhu and Top's application for access to a streamlined visa program on the grounds that Top's students were coming to Australia to work, not study.

Additionally Zhu has been granted the privileges of being part of the NSW and Australian legal establishment despite Zhu's part in organizing what Hamilton describes as "menacing and at times violent mass demonstrations by foreign students" in 2008.
This elevation is in clear breach of the LPAB, the Chief Justice and the AG's own standards of behavior expected of anyone seeking admission to the legal profession in NSW and Australia; under those standards even persistent complaints via email are regarded threatening and intimidating. The AG himself has deemed that merely questioning his person about entities under his purview is behavior that is threatening and intimidatory. 


That Speakmnan was not AG when Zhu and Top were first granted their LPAB approvals is irrelevant for the approvals are reviewed at regular intervals; a recent review ( which was kept confidential) seems to have had an impact on Top's share price.

Hamilton has simply compiled what is in the public domain.The AG and his officers on the other hand remain determined to remain silent on even their failure to disclose fully the  LPAB's dealings with  Zhu and Top Group in the LPAB's annual reports which the AG tables in parliament.
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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

by Ganesh Sahathevan


Troy Grant MP

NSW Libs received donations of $44,275 from TOP Education Grosup 
 all details in the LPAB Annual Reports

In "Silent Invasion"   Professor Clive Hamilton  describes how  Zhu Minshen and his Top Education Institute(and other Chinese entities) interfere  in Australian politics.The section on Zhu and Top begins :
"Few people noticed, but the  fishy smell around Zhu Minshen's Top Education Institute was noticeable a few years before it began wafting from the front pages of the newspaper (such as the AFR in 2013)".

In 2012  the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board , a statutory body chaired by the Chief Justice NSW and under the purview of the Attorney General NSW ,began the process that led to Zhu and his Top Group being granted the "first and only"  license to issue law degrees granted a private  company that is not a university.

The notoriety that Zhu and Top Group had gained since 2013,and especially in 2016 seems to have been ignored in the process of evaluating Zhu's application, despite the very high standards of probity the LPAB ,the Chief Justice and the AG profess for anyone seeking admission to practice in NSW.

In  comparison Hamilton reports that in 2013 the then Labor Minister for Higher  Education, Kim Carr, rejected Zhu and Top's application for access to a streamlined visa program on the grounds that Top's students were coming to Australia to work, not study.

Additionally Zhu has been granted the privileges of being part of the NSW and Australian legal establishment despite Zhu's part in organizing what Hamilton describes as "menacing and at times violent mass demonstrations by foreign students" in 2008.
This elevation is in clear breach of the LPAB, the Chief Justice and the AG's own standards of behavior expected of anyone seeking admission to the legal profession in NSW and Australia; under those standards even persistent complaints via email are regarded threatening and intimidating. The AG himself has deemed that merely questioning his person about entities under his purview is behavior that is threatening and intimidatory. 


That Speakmnan was not AG when Zhu and Top were first granted their LPAB approvals is irrelevant for the approvals are reviewed at regular intervals; a recent review ( which was kept confidential) seems to have had an impact on Top's share price.

Hamilton has simply compiled what is in the public domain.The AG and his officers on the other hand remain determined to remain silent on even their failure to disclose fully the  LPAB's dealings with  Zhu and Top Group in the LPAB's annual reports which the AG tables in parliament.
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Friday, September 6, 2019

Peter Hall QC and ICAC ignore former AG George Brandis in their determination to not call Minshen Zhu and Top Group

by Ganesh Sahathevan




As previously reported on this blog:

ICAC's own documents show that Peter Hall QC is unduly concerned with Huang Xiangmo for  many other donors were involved in that 15 March 2015 dinner that has become the subject matter of ICAC's "public inquiry into allegations concerning political donations".

In September 2016 former Commonwealth AG George Brandis was reported to have said in Parliament:
 Yuhu Group chairman Huang Xiangmo had been quoted in the Chinese media "complaining that Australian MPs were 'not delivering' on donations from the Chinese community"

These donations included money Dastyari and the ALP received from Minshen Zhu and his Top Group.

ICAC's own documents show that Zhu was a donor at that dinner. Zhu has also been reported to have made a political donation to Kogarah MP Chis Minns campaign, despite Minns having " no idea how the businessman, Top Education Group chief Minshen Zhu, came to nominate his campaign on the cheque, written on March 17 (2015)".

In ICAC's own words ,the general scope and purpose of the public inquiry is to gather evidence relevant to the allegation being investigated under section 13A of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988. This section addresses the ICAC’s function of investigating matters referred to it by the NSW Electoral Commission.

Given "the general scope" it is hard to see why  Minshen Zhu is not being called as a witness.


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Escalating criticism

Last week, Senator Dastyari's comments were raised in Parliament by the nation's highest lawmaker, Attorney-General George Brandis.
In September 2016 then Attorney General Senator Brandis questioned whether the then  Labor frontbencher Sam Dastyari had been compromised by Minshen Zhu and his Top Group.
He laid out his reasoning in Parliament:
  • Top Education Institute — a company with links to Beijing through its principal Minshen Zhu — paid for an overspend on staff travel in Senator Dastyari's office.
  • Senator Dastyari said the bill was $1,670.82, but Senator Brandis wants a receipt or other proof of the amount to be disclosed.
  • Senator Brandis also wanted a dollar figure and receipt for another payment — a legal bill settled by the Yuhu Group.
  • He said Yuhu Group chairman Huang Xiangmo had been quoted in the Chinese media "complaining that Australian MPs were 'not delivering' on donations from the Chinese community".
  • Senator Brandis maintains in both cases that Senator Dastyari called on Chinese donors to pay personal debts, rather than donations.
  • A day earlier, when the travel bill was first reported by Fairfax, Senator Dastyari gave a brief speech in Parliament saying in hindsight he should not have accepted the assistance with the travel bill, and that he would donate a commensurate amount to charity.
  • Senator Brandis said that explanation was "woefully inadequate" and lasted for only 66 words.
  • The Attorney-General also pointed to reports Senator Dastyari urged Australia to drop its opposition to China's air defence zone in the South China Sea.
  • He also referred to a speech the senator made on March 17 2014, on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Senator Dastyari said he was presenting the "Chinese view".
  • Senator Brandis further referred to an exchange in Senate Estimates on June 2, 2014. The former defence minister David Johnston said Senator Dastyari was asking sensitive questions about Australia's position on the South China Sea that were not "in the national interest".
The Attorney-General has said: "Senator Dastyari's acceptance of personal benefits from an entity or entities with links to the Chinese state and the carefully opaque way in which the payments have been described in the Register of Senators' Interests raise the inevitable question of whether Senator Dastyari, whether advertently or unwittingly, has allowed himself to be compromised".

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Sean Nicholls
By Sean Nicholls
UpdatedSeptember 12, 2016 — 3.55pmfirst published at3.24pm
The businessman at the centre of the political furore over Senator Sam Dastyari wrote a cheque for $2000 to a Labor candidate at last year's state election who he has never met.
Kogarah MP Chris Minns says he has no idea how the businessman, Top Education Group chief Minshen Zhu, came to nominate his campaign on the cheque, written on March 17 last year.
The organiser of the Chinese Friends of Labor event for which donation was made, Labor MLC Ernest Wong, has previously said he has "no knowledge" of the donation.
But on Monday he said: "I suggest to members of the Chinese community that if they want to support Labor then they should do so in areas where there is a large number of Chinese people living there."
"Chinese people make up about 40 per cent of Kogarah. The cheque was never cashed."
Kogarah has the highest percentage of people of Chinese descent in Australia - a fact noted by Mr Minns in his inaugural speech a month after the cheque was written, during which he called for mandatory Mandarin lessons for NSW schoolchildren.
Senator Dastyari last week quit the opposition front bench over his declaration to parliament that at his request Top Education had paid a $1670 overspend in his office travel entitlement.
The following day Fairfax Media reported that the whereabouts of the $2000 cheque remained a mystery more than a year after it was written.
Election funding records shows the donation was for the annual Chinese Friends of Labor event held at The Eight restaurant in Sydney's Chinatown four days earlier and attended by more than 600 guests.

However, a return lodged with the NSW Electoral Commission by Top Education states: "Cheque received by ALP but hasn't been banked yet."
The cheque was never received by the party office and Top Education has declined to comment.
But Mr Minns has since revealed the cheque was received by his office.
He said it was never cashed it as it was not accompanied with a form stating that Dr Zhu and Top Education were entitled to donate to NSW election campaigns.
"When my campaign received the cheque in March 2015 it did not have the required documentation to ensure it came from an eligible donor," Mr Minns said.
"In the absence of that we decided to err on the side of caution and not process the donation."
However, election funding records show NSW Labor accepted a $1000 donation from Top Education on April 17 tied to a fundraiser hosted by Senator Dastyari at Sydney's Chinatown restaurant.
Senator Dastyari has said there is no link between the cheque and the payment of his travel debt.
Sean Nicholls
Sean Nicholls is the State Political Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Minshen Zhu's Top Group was a matter raised in Parliament by Cory Bernadi ,regardless ICAC pretend Zhu is irrelevant-Also, AG Speakman, his LPAB and TEQSA continue to maintain silence, provide Zhu his approvals

by Ganesh Sahathevan

Chinese political donors


An ABC investigation of political donations reveals Chinese 
businesses are by far the largest foreign-linked donors to both 
major parties. Search the data here.



As reported by the ABC:

Labor senator and power broker Sam Dastyari has admitted he was wrong to let a company with links to the Chinese Government pay a $1,670.82 bill incurred by his office.

Senator Bernardi said Senator Dastyari's statement was "wholly inadequate".


"He hasn't detailed how it came to pass that a company with strong links to a foreign country has paid his personal obligations to the Commonwealth," he told the Senate this morning.

Senator Dastyari made the statement after Liberal senator Cory Bernardi challenged him to explain the payment on the ABC's 7.30 program last night.
"We have Sam Dastyari, who is now the manager of opposition business in the Senate, railing about corporate corruption and yet we have a circumstance where on the 12th October, 2015, he declared that his debt for his mismanagement of his office budget, his debt to the Commonwealth, who is paid by the top education institute."

The payment was made by the Sydney-based Top Education Institute to cover a blow out in Senator Dastyari's office's travel budget


Meanwhile over at Peter Hall QC's ICAC public inquiry, Zhu continues to be ignored:

ICAC's own documents show that Peter Hall QC is unduly concerned with Huang Xiangmo and the Aldi bag



And elsewhere,Zhu's business continues to be supported despite Top Group's financial problems: