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

by Ganesh Sahathevan

From left to right :Prof Eugene Clark, Hon George Brandis, 

Dr Minshen Zhu.Politicians constantly change their position

on matters and their allegiances, so Brandis being critical

of Zhu while being happy to be photographed with him is not

inconsistent, for a politician. 

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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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?

In July 2019 Nick Saunder's TEQSA declared that almost all Australian unis were not at risk of over-reliance on a single source of revenue-TEQSA and Saunders have yet to explain errors post COVID19

by Ganesh Sahathevan


The following information has been extracted from TEQSA's Key risk findings on Australia’s higher education sector, published in July 2019

Financial Sustainability considers the longer-term financial strength and capacity of providers, including structural characteristics that support operating endurance. Measures are generally analysed over a three-year period and cover change in total revenue, asset (capital) replacement, employee benefits expenditure, enrolments, and revenue concentration/diversification (page 81 of publication).


The position post-COVID19, where the university sector as a whole is reeling from the  loss of revenue from Chinese students ,  is well summarised by The Guardian in these paragraphs:

Australia’s university sector says it faces economic catastrophe and massive job losses unless it receives more help from the government during the coronavirus crisis.

It is begging the federal government to immediately extend interest-free loans, as institutions – large and small – devise plans to slash hundreds of millions of dollars from their 2020 budgets in anticipation that foreign student income will dry up in the second semester.

The TEQSA report is ultimately the responsibility of its chairman, Nick Saunders, who has yet to explain his now obvious error. He must not be allowed to hide behind any argument that his report did not say "China", "Chinese students" or similar with regards"revenue concentration" or "single source revenue".

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Nick Saunder's TEQSA has granted Minshen Zhu's Top Group permission to open a branch campus in Hobart, and increase Sydney student numbers despite sharp fall in market cap;TEQSA approval can aid Top's cashflow

HK's Simply Wall St raises even more concerns about Zhu Minshen's Top Education Group's cashflow - Proper investigation of issues hindered by the effective immunity enjoyed by Chief Justice Tom Bathurst who granted Zhu the one and only license to grant law degrees

Dan Andrew's China deal reinforces the need for a Malaysia style Operation Judas: Australia has a legion of Chin Peng's and they can command the obedience of leaders in government, the legal system, and business

by Ganesh Sahathevan

Victorian premier Daniel AndrewsTim Blair Blog Posts                                                                                 While Daniel Andrews pretends to hear nothing, other Australian leaders                                                            seem genuinely deaf and blind to China's infiltration

 Australians are slowly learning that the Government of Victoria, one of their largest and most prosperous states, are about to take that state into a comprehensive Belt&Road debt plan: 

Victoria is locked in critical final-stage negotiations with Beijing over investments worth billions of dollars at the same time as its Treasurer has savaged the Morrison government’s “vilification” of China over trade and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tim Pallas’s pro-China intervention comes as the deadline for Victoria to sign an “investment road map”, which ties the state to the communist giant with extraordinarily cosy language, is just weeks away.

Under Victoria’s decision to sign-up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative — in defiance of federal government security advice — key investment details are meant to be signed by the middle of 2020 following completion of a draft road map in March.


The looming deadline emerged as the Andrews government dodged parliamentary questions on Wednesday about whether any of the state’s $24bn coronavirus rescue package would be borrowed from China.

The “framework agreement” underpinning the Victoria-China deal was signed by Premier Daniel Andrews and Vice-Chairman Ning Jizhe of the National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China on October 23 last year.

The document raises the possibility that Mr Pallas’s unprecedented backing of Beijing in its row with the Morrison government over the global coronavirus pandemic investigation was motivated by protecting the Belt and Road Initiative.

The above adds to the evidence of Chinese Communist Party infiltration of Australia's legal , political and business systems. As suggested on this blog recently, Australia needs a Malaysian style Operation Judas to counter the infiltration.

The Malaysian case involved a known leader, Chin Peng, who was being backed by the Communist Party Of China, and by the time Operation Judas was executed, his influence had waned.

In Australia on the other hand there appear to be very many handlers who can call on a legion of assets in both the private and public sectors. 

As the former head of ASIO Duncan Lewis put it:

“Espionage and foreign interference is insidious,” he said. “Its effects might not present for decades and by that time it’s too late.

“You wake up one day and find decisions made in our country that are not in the interests of our country.”

Decisive action is needed, regardless of who it affects, and how high it goes.

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 Former MACC chief Lateefah Koya sighted interference with the work of the MACC and AGC as the reason why she went public with the Najib Razak Darling-gate tapes. 
The public spat over the Riza Aziz settlement raises the question whether Koya was alluding to interference from within the MACC and AGC. 



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Public exchanges between AG Idris Harun & predecessor Tommy Thomas raise even more questions about Malaysia's 1MDB investigation and prosecution of Najib Razak: Crucial evidence of the paper trail seems to have been ignored, and nothing done to investigate and recover 1MDB funds

No equality before the Australian Bench and at the Australian Bar until Asian lawyers can behave as badly as whites

by Ganesh Sahathevan


Beasley SC: one last bite. Tempting to think that Asian lawyers also can indulge in this type of witticism, but it will probably be career ending.

Readers  may recall  that this writer has been found not fit and proper for admission  to practise at the Supreme Court Of NSW, and subsequently all other Australian jurisdictions. 
The decision of the  NSW Legal Profession Admission Board chaired the Chief Justice Of NSW, Tom Bathurst,  is based on findings that include this writer's part in an international conspiracy which involved corrupting journalists at the ABC 4 Corners programme (see story below).

The findings included a significant amount of evidence about this writer's tendency to angry, threatening and intimidating behaviour. That evidence included complaints about the College Of Law (which are now being investigated in Malaysia) and of this writer's work as a journalist. 

Faced with the findings of such an eminent body as the NSW LPAB and the Chief Justice a thorough examination of conduct and conscience has been embarked upon, which has naturally included looking to one's betters for examples of proper behaviour.  
Research had led to the following examples:

From Richard Beasely SC, as quoted by Justinian:

If you were on death row what would you request for your last meal? 

Barnaby Joyce's testicles.

Then, the lawyers named in this story from the SMH dated 15 September 2018, headlined "Police investigate following top legal eagles' swanky party" . 

The violence described in the SMH story frightens even this writer despite his close to 40 years experience in the martial arts, a 5th Dan Black Belt in taekwondo,and ongoing training in full contact combat sports. 


It does appear as if the Australian Bar and Bench, while outwardly de-crying the lack of  "diversity", expect Asians and other non-whites to conduct themselves like house servants or plantation slaves, always obedient and circumspect, and never ever like their white masters. 

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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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That ordinary Australian university student politics can harm trade with China demonstrates why Peter Varghese & Andrew Robb's China FTA is a bad deal: Varghese must be removed as UQ Chancellor, must not be allowed to trash Australian university traditions in order to defend his legacy

by Ganesh Sahathevan

                         

                                           Australian national interest better served by the removal of
                                                               Peter Varghese as UQ Chancellor



In praise of his work the then  Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Peter N Varghese AO declared in 2015: 

"ChAFTA is a remarkably good deal for Australia and the best deal that China has done with any partner to date.ChAFTA will make a real difference to the livelihoods of Australian farmers and producers".

The claim that the China-Australia Free Trade deal (ChAFTA) is "the best" that China has done with any country is interesting. Given the position that Australia finds itself in today where it would seem that nothing can be decided in the national interest 

Varghese worked on that deal with his minister, the then Minister for Trade and Investment, Andrew Robb.  That Robb agreed to Chinese workers effectively taking the place of local workers on Australian construction sites, in order to get the deal done, says much of Robb's incompetence. That he then went on to work for the PLA linked Landbridge says much about his loyalties. 

That ordinary student politics at UQ  can be seen to harm UQ's  business relationship with China provides further evidence that the ChAFTA was a bad deal to begin with. That Varghese finds himself in a position where he has to deal with the consequences of his work is poetic. He must not however be allowed to use his position to defend his legacy, and in the process ruin the tradition we have in Australian universities of open and vigorous debate, no matter how unruly or offensive it may seem. 
Varghese must go,and Pavlou be provded all the backing he needs to ensure that the perpetrators of the so-called "disciplinary action" against him are removed from the tertiary education system.

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Peter Varghese has been wrong about Iran, jihadis in SEA, and now China: Australia's national interest better served by the activism of UQ student Drew Pavlou, not UQ Chancellor Peter Varghese. Australians should seek Varghese's removal as UQ Chancellor