Having observed attacks on academic freedoms in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — discussions have begun in diplomatic and security circles about whether the Five Eyes intelligence partners should respond collectively to the threat, so there are no "weak links" which can be exploited.
Meanwhile John Denton and his team at Corrs have gone so far as to assist China against India on Gwadar,and let it be known that Darwin Port will be a base for the Chinese Navy ,to enable its work in the Indian Ocean ,and Northern Australia.
It follows that Corrs and Denton also are likely to be subject of Five Eyes action.Corrs clients can expect their files to be scrutinised, by all sides. Denton must find singing Katyusha in Chinese increasingly difficult.
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References
Friday, October 13, 2017
On John Denton's clumsy promotion of the PRC;almost as bad as bragging about a conversation with Yeltsin's driver
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Katyusha (Катюшa) -by the Alexandrov Ensemble and ladies from the PLA. An example of managing and harmonizing conflicting interests that Denton could learn from.
John Fitzgerald's article in the Lowy Interpreter explains in excruciating detail why John Denton's defence of the government of the Peoples Republic China is clumsy and not credible in what it seeks to achieve. Fitzgerald was responding to Denton and one Peter Drysdale's (famous for something or another, I'm sure) recent article in the AFR where both chastised Australians for questioning the right of Chinese nationals in Australia to promote the interests of the PRC.
That effort was as clumsy as Denton's bragging in a 1998 interview about how, as a "political analyst" seconded to DFAT from Corrs, serving in Russia, he obtained information from then president Boris Yeltsin's movements from Yeltsin's driver.
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Reference
Friday, October 6, 2017
The matter of Corrs ,the PRC and the PLA: National security trumps legal professional privilege;likely that privileged info already in the hands of foreign agencies
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Current Chinese President Xi Jinping with Corrs CEO John W.H. Denton
Given law firm Corrs and its CEO John Denton's admission on the Corrs website that the Darwin Port deal will provide Chinese naval vessels with facilitated access to Australia, it is in the national interest that all records at Corrs be reviewed to determine how and to what extent Australian national interests have been compromised.
Corrs and Denton will no doubt claim that their files are all subject to legal professional privilege, but national security must trump that of some law firm and its clients making a bit of money.In any case, it is more likely than not that Corrs IT systems have already been breached by any number of intelligence agencies in this region. Denton and his partners may , for example, want to familiarize themselves with the acronym RAW.
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Current Chinese President Xi Jinping with Corrs CEO John W.H. DentonGiven law firm Corrs and its CEO John Denton's admission on the Corrs website that the Darwin Port deal will provide Chinese naval vessels with facilitated access to Australia, it is in the national interest that all records at Corrs be reviewed to determine how and to what extent Australian national interests have been compromised.
Corrs and Denton will no doubt claim that their files are all subject to legal professional privilege, but national security must trump that of some law firm and its clients making a bit of money.In any case, it is more likely than not that Corrs IT systems have already been breached by any number of intelligence agencies in this region. Denton and his partners may , for example, want to familiarize themselves with the acronym RAW.
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Attorney-General Senator George Brandis is rumoured to
