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Cost of NSW LPAB's PLT scandal must be disclosed as a separate item, and notes provided to explain clearly how the scandal came to be; cost must include provision for contingent liabilities

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 by Ganesh Sahathevan                                                                                    NSW LPAB's 23-24 Annual Report has additonal defeciencies  The   NSW LPAB's PLT scandal  is not cost free, and so far included the expemse of the URBIS survey, and the internal PLT working group review. It is likely that other costs have and will be incurred, in the course of unravelling a scandal that the  NSW LPAB would have been aware of since at least 2006.  There is also a paper trail to show  that the   NSW LPAB Executive Officer at the time, Louise Pritchard,  had personal knowledge of governance matters which concerned the PLT, but were however excluded from the NSW LPAB Annual Report 2018 (see story below). Gi...

Anti-Israel Muslim lobby group thanks judiciary for its "continued support"-Perception of bias to be expected.;judiciary has lent itself to group's campaign against Israel, enforcement of terrorism laws.

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by Ganesh Sahathevan  The following is publicity from the Muslim Legal Network: Muslim Legal Network New South Wales Like This Page  ·  February 8   ·    Last night we welcomed the legal fraternity to the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque for the 2019 Islamic Opening of Law Term service. We are thankful for the continued support of the judiciary,  The Law Society of NSW  and the NSW Attorney General, Mark Speakman . We look forward to a productive 2019 #MLNNSWOLT2019   #MLNNSW   #MLNOLT2019 #NSWLaw The Network is not backward in its anti-Israel advocacy, as evidenced by this threat to boycott Fairfax publications: In a letter to the Fairfax chief executive, Greg Hywood, and editor-in-chief, Darren Goodsir, the Australian National Imams Council, Islamic Council of New South Wales and Muslim Legal Network New South Wales, among others, said they would boycott the Sydney Morning Herald unless the outspoken columnist was reinstated. Carlton quit the ...

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong will be in KL to lecture Malaysians on Australia and South East Asian security- Will she address her apparent disapproval of UK-Malaysia defence ties

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 by Ganesh Sahathevan  Penny Wong and Rory Medcalf AM will be speaking in Kuala Lumpur on 10 July 2025. They now have an opportunity to explain to Malaysians how Penny Wong 's demanding that UK apologise for its colonial past , despite its long standing defence ties with Malaysia , Brunei and Singaopre, is "actually a geopolitical play" intended to craft a new scaffolding for AUKUS. The existing "scaffolding" does not, it seems, matter: Rory Medcalf AM also makes reference to the impoverished circumstances of Penny Wong 's Sabah Hakka-Cantonese family , which was apparently mistreated by some English family (Penny says her grandmother worked for an English family as a maid, after WW2). https://lnkd.in/gwuRcxNJ TO BE READ WITH  The UK confronted its colonial past in Malaysia in 1988 with a USD1.95 Billion arms deal, a contract to construct the Pergau Dam, and other deals which were concluded when Penny Wong was at uni, playing undergraduate politics -...