Morrison Govt can afford AUD 3 Billion to support & re-train retrenched workers by withdrawing funding allocated for the College Of Law NSW PLT : An opportunity for Law Council Australia & NSW Law Society to show leadership & admit that their PLT is of little practical value

by Ganesh Sahathevan



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                     In Malaysia deprived of the protective mantle of the NSW and Australian legal establishment the College Of                           Law's problems became all too apparent 


The Morrison Government has remained silent on the matter of providing support and training for workers, especially casual workers who have and will be retrenched in the days to come. 
There have been requests for the Government to  provide paid worker re-training, but again, the Morrison Government has kept quite.
The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia CEO, Peter Strong,  said the government should consider giving training vouchers to employers to give staff skills training while they were out of work during any shutdown period.
“A training wage is less than the minimum wage, but it’s still better than Newstart."
Funding is always the issue especially with a recession more likely than not, but this is precisely the reason why the allocations of all departments need to be audited. With regards training it has been reported on this blog that some AUD40-50 Million is allocated every year to The College Of Law Sydney for the provision of the Professional Legal Training Programme that is a prerequisite for anyone wanting to be admitted to practise law in NSW. As reported, the funds are being misallocated;  the PLT is probably better funded out of the TAFE budget (assuming the College Of Law PLT meets TAFE standards). 
The Law Council Australia and the NSW Law Society can show some leadership by  recommending that the Government redirect FEE HELP funding from the College Of Law which would not exist without the LCA and NSW Law Society's acceptance of a course many lawyers will admit has little if any real value.

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Overseas business travel, sponsorship of foreign events,all funded by FEE HELP: The College Of Law's taxpayer funded South East Asian adventure




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