Ganesh Sahathevan

NOTE  It appears that there are climate change issues that the fearless climate warrior, Zali Steigall, will not even consider. See first the type of climate change research that is being conducted in Singapore  Willingness to Pay for Urban Heat Island Mitigation: A Case Study of Singapore by  Natalia Borzino  1,* , Samuel Chng  2 , Muhammad Omer Mughal  1  and Renate Schubert  1,3 1 Singapore-ETH Centre, 1 Create Way, CREATE Tower, #06-01, Singapore 138602, Singapore 2 Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 8 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372, Singapore 3 Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Chair of Economics, ETH-Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Climate   2020 ,  8 (7), 82;  https://doi.org/10.3390/cli8070082 Received: 24 May 2020  /  Revised: 6 June 2020  /  Accepted: 19 June 2020  /...

 by Ganesh Sahathevan The ABC has reported: The NSW opposition has accused the state government of wasting more than three quarters of a billion dollars on PPE that had to be thrown out because it did not meet standards. The discarded equipment included more than $150 million of face masks. A spokesperson for NSW Health said the faulty equipment was sourced by a "whole of government" procurement group, led by NSW Police. The above may well be among the accounting blackholes that the Perrotet Government is trying conceal with funds from its quarantine fee charge, which appears to be in fact a penalty. TO BE READ WITH  Collection of Damnien Tudehope's non-health service expenses via Sydney Local Health District likely to have required another Dom Perrotet style Transport Asset Holding Entity shell October 23, 2021  by Ganesh Sahathevan                                        ...

 by Ganesh Sahathevan  The above has been extracted from the latest College Of Law Ltd's annual report.  The substantial government funding is provided via the Commonwealth's FEE HELP facility.  The Practical Legal Training (PLT)  which the College runs, and which is a prerequisite for admission to practise  in NSW, has the imprimatur  of the Chief Justice NSW, Tom Bathurst, in his capacity as Chairman of the the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board.  College Academic Director Lewis Patrick has said that in assessing the work experience component of the PLT  "  the College is not assessing the quality of (the student's) work experience, but rather the quality of (the student's)  reflections  on that experience . The College's PLT course is now mostly on-line, and there are problems with delivery and infrastructure. Its FEE HELP cashflow is being utilised to finance its expansion overseas. TO BE READ WITH  Fa...

 by Ganesh Sahathevan  Former NSW Treasurer and current Premier Dominic Perrotet issued the Queensland Government an invoice for quarantining Queensland residents who had returned via Sydney Airport, which the Queensland Government has quite literally thrown in the bin (see story below). One of the problems with the Perrotet invoice might lay in the fact that NSW charges  quarantined travellers  a fee for police & army guards and COVID testing, while Queensland only charges a fee for food and hotel accommodation . Queensland provides travellers ordered into quarantine an invoice with details of the components of the quarantine fee (see excerpt below), while NSW will not.  In NSW quarantined travellers receive a demand for payment from the NSW State Debt Office, and requests for an itemised invoice are ignored, if not denied. The quarantine fee is effectively a penalty imposed on anyone ordered into quarantine.  TO BE READ WITH    Pre...

 by Ganesh Sahathevan                                               Despite official and unofficial booster mandates, that have come over and above vaccine mandates from their major customers, the governments of primarily developed countries with plenty of capacity to pay for their products, the share price and market capitalisation of the main vaccine producers have all collapsed. Vaccitech which formulated  the AstraZeneca vaccine is now trading at almost half its IPO price of USD 17, which it only got to briefly after the IPO. BoiNTech which formulated and  produces the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has seen its share price collapse to approximately USD 1500, after getting to a high of just above USD 400, in under 12 months, despite a slew of good news.  Moderna and Novavax have also seen their share price and market capitalisation fall off a clif...

 by Ganesh Sahathevan  “Vaccines wane,” Tony Blakely, a University of Melbourne epidemiologis said. “The increase in NSW is entirely expected even before you consider Omicron. Omicron didn’t start this kick-up, but it’s going to fan it, and numbers will go up even faster.” In the recent vaccine mandate case of Kassam v Hazzard Beech-Jones J of the NSW Supreme Court held that NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazard had every right to be an "advocate for vaccination" for the Minister can be expected to be a "policy advocate". Since that decision was handed down in October 2021 93.6% of NSW's 16 and over population have been double or fully vaccinated. Herd immunity should have been achieved, but it has not. COVID infection in NSW has reached a record of over 20,000 per day, a record that is more than 15 times the previous high. The COVID vaccines have clearly failed in what they were meant to do, for they are meant to prevent infection. A BioNTech/Pfizer funded stud...