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Revenue NSW COVID Quarantine Fee payment demand notices suggest that Police Commissioner Mick Fuller breached the law with his demand for quarantine fees

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 By Ganesh Sahathevan  Anyone who has received a Revenue NSW Quarantine Fee demand for payment notice  will be familiar with these words that are contained in the notice: What is the quarantine service fee? A mandatory quarantine service fee applies to all travellers arriving in New South Wales (NSW) who are required to quarantine as part of the public health order. Mandatory quarantine is needed to stop the spread. of COVID-19 in NSW The qurantine fee has been charged pursuant to Section 70 of  the NSW Health Act. However, as previously reported, that section does not permit any imposition of mandatory fees.  However, in apparent defiance of Section 70 of the Health Act, Fuller issued a notice   in which he said  that Revenue NSW " will be charging a mandatory quarantine fee". TOE BE READ WITH  Former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said in his notice that Revenue NSW " will be charging a mandatory quarantine fee" - Former NSW Ministers...

PwC partner Mick Fuller is at the centre of a range of NSW Government COVID quarantine fee accounting issues he caused when he was NSW Police chief - Fuller's appointment as PwC partner means PwC is conflcited with regards NSW Government audits

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 by Ganesh Sahathevan  PwC partner Mick Fuller is at the centre of a range of NSW Government COVID  accounting issues he caused when he was NSW Police chief (see sory below). T he extent of the accounting problems remains unclear. While  NSW   Minister for Finance Courtney Houssos has announced consultancy firm PwC has been suspended from obtaining new tax engagements with the NSW Government , that suspension concerns only tax work, and only for the next three months.  Meanwhile  NSW   Minister for Finance Courtney Houssos  has said nothing about PwC audits of NSW government accounting records.     Fuller's appointment as PwC partner means PwC is conflicted  with regards  any NSW Government audits, but all have remained silent.  TO BE READ WITH  Can former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller remain PwC Partner, Government Consulting, while his COVID quarantine fee directive and accounting issues re...

Can former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller remain PwC Partner, Government Consulting, while his COVID quarantine fee directive and accounting issues remain unanswered

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 by Ganesh Sahathevan  Mick Fuller, the former  NSW Police Commissioner was appointed Partner, Government Consulting, at the audit and accounting firm PwC  in August 2022. Meanwhile , the issues surrounding the charging and accounting of COVID quarantine fees for which he claimed responsibility ,  remain unanswered.  To Be Read With  Former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said in his notice that Revenue NSW " will be charging a mandatory quarantine fee" - Former NSW Ministers Hazzard, Tudehope insisted that the quarantine fees charged by Sydney Local Health District, pursuant to the NSW Health Services Act May 02, 2023  by Ganesh Sahathevan                                                                                        ...

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District  has its own billing and payment collection system - SLHD CEO Teresa Anderson had no need for  Revenue NSW to act on her behalf -Anderson's conduct raises accounting and management issues, investigation must include former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller's statement that Revenue NSW, not Anderson's SLHD would charge quarantine fees

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 by Ganessh Sahathevan  Those who have received demandd for payment of quarantine fees from Revenue NSW would be familiar with tis statement contained in the Revenue NSW demand:  Revenue NSW is acting on behalf of Sydney Local Health District to recover fees related to mandatory quarantine services.  Why Revenue NSW had to be involved in collecting a fee for health services provided by the SLHD has never been explained. SLHD has a well developed payment system and has its own invoices, on its own letterhead. These are displayed on its payment portal:  Pay Your Invoice Pay Your Bill South Eastern Sydney LHD has several options, as noted below, for paying invoice/s in respect to hospital treatment: Anderson h as now additional accounting and management issues to answer  for. An investigation is now overdue and  must include former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller who said   that Revenue NSW, not Anderson's SLHD, would charge quarantine fees...

NSW AG Michael Daley "formed a really great affinity with the beauty of the working class" in Catholic Maroubra but will not trust their priests to witness their statutory declarations

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 by Ganesh Sahathevan  In 2019 The Guardian ran a story about  the aspiring NSW  Labor leader and premier for NSW, Michael Daley which said:  (Maroubra)  still has a larger than average Catholic population, evidenced by churches and Catholic schools dotted around the suburb, including Marcellin College Randwick, where Daley went to high school. “ I worked right through this estate. My paper run should have taken me two hours, it often took five or six. I would stop off and help the old ladies, walk their dogs, they would give me breakfast and I formed a really great affinity with what I would unashamedly call the beauty of the working class,” he says. Now, as Attorney General NSW Daley will not even trust their priests to witness ordinary statutory declarations that they may have to attest from time to time.  TO BE READ WITH  AG NSW Michael Daley will not amend NSW Oaths Act provisions which discriminate against ministers of religion , will not br...

Ex NSW LPAB Executive Officer Louise Pritchard ,subject of queries from The Australian, hired by Sydney University since early 2019 -NSW LPAB has never explained her departure, UYSD the reasons for her appointment

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  by Ganesh Sahathevan  In January 2019 The Australian reported:  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 inqui...