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NSW Law Society's College Of Law Ltd continues to receive Commonwealth FEE HELP funding despite unresolved issues and ongoing investigation in Malaysia

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 by Ganesh Sahathevan  The NSW Law Society's College Of Law survives on its access to Commonwealth FEE HELP funding which it receives for Australian students it enrols in its PLT course. The annual income from this source is approximately $40-50 Million per year. Access to FEE HELP has continued despite unresolved issues concerning the College's business in Malaysia, which have prompted investigation by Malaysian authorities. Meanwhile the College has embarked on an expansion into the UK, where College CEO Neville Carter has cited the College's experience in Asia as a selling point. The vehicle for its UK expansion is named the College Of Legal Practise Ltd and that remains a going concern only by reliance on financial support from the College's Australian FEE HELP funded operations. The College is run as a not for profit, and with an entrenched senior management team, many of whom have been with the College for the past thirty to forty years. All of the above shoul...

Learn from Marcus Aurelius, if not, Hannibal Lecter : The importance of evaluating objective scientific evidence objectively, and the dangers of evaluating objective evidence by a subjective assessment of the bearer of that objective evidence

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 by Ganesh Sahathevan      For a simple and entertaining lesson listen to Hannibal Lecter from 1:00 onward. Curiosity piqued (one hopes), see then the source, and full extent of what Marcus Aurelius says:  This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What   is its substance and material? And what its causal nature (or form)? And   what is it doing in the world? And how long does it   subsist?   The Meditations , By   Marcus   Aurelius    167 A.) As one can see, there is much that needs to be interrogated, and understood,  from the evidence itself. Attempting to evaluate that evidence by a subjective assessment of the bearer of the evidence, or its shell, is likely to lead to error.  TO BE READ WITH  NSW Supreme Crt's Beech-Jones J's application of a subjective standard to objective evidence in vaccine mandate case has allowed NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard to escape scrutiny of his faile...