Ganesh Sahathevan

by Ganesh Sahathevan                            Ambassador Cheng Jingye Pays an Official Visit to the State of New                            South Wales   (2016/08/16) See first, as reported on this and related blogs the story of Zhu Minshen and his "very unique" Australian law school which is about to produce a significant number of Chinese based Australian lawyers:  Lee Kuan Yew warned in '59 about the danger of China controlled universities becoming symbols of Chinese dominance: Lessons from the region ignored in granting Zhu Minshen that license to operate his "very unique" Australian law school And, now an analysis by former Singapore diplomat Bilahari Kausikan's  of how China works to expand its influence in ways which would bewilder most Australian politicians and public servants, and in particular t...

by Ganesh Sahathevan A tweet from NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman, who is considered a future premier of NSW: Mark Speakman @MarkSpeakman A new #renewableenergy zone for the New England region aims to attract 8000 megawatts of generation capacity, nearly the size of the state's entire fleet of coal-fired power plants. https:// smh.com.au/national/nsw/n ew-renewable-energy-zone-to-almost-match-nsw-s-coal-fired-capacity-20200709-p55agh.html … via @smh New renewable energy zone to almost match NSW's coal-fired capacity The New England zone will attract $12.7 billion in investment, support 2000 construction jobs and 1300 ongoing jobs, the NSW Government says. It is unclear how many these jobs are likely to eventuate, when crucial components must be imported, on some of the world's largest planes, which are not known to be carbon efficient. As reported by The Australia...

by Ganesh Sahathevan  Artist impression of the future Attack-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy. Naval Group image. This writer maintains that the Senate needs to recall Rear Admiral Greg Sammut -Sammut and defence officials may have misled Senate in the course of giving Pauline Hanson their "submarines 101 lesson". The "101 lesson" concerned the "Attack CLass" submarine's pump propulsion system.  Meanwhile the Department of Defence has removed from its website its response dismissing a submission critical of the pump jet propulsion system. Fortunately the webpage is archived. Defence's response has also been reported by Defence Connect. The report includes this paragraph: Defence said pump jet design had advanced over many years with particular focus on the characteristics of all propulsor components. “Notably many of these characteristics are classified and must remain so to protect all of the benefits that Australi...