21 July 2023

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

 

WHO WROTE THE VOICE?

 

 

‘The Dreamtime is the period in which life was created according to Aboriginal culture. Dreaming is the word used to explain how life came to be; it is the stories and beliefs behind creation’ https://www.aboriginalcontemporary.com.au/

 

Change is the law of the universe. What you think of as death, is indeed life. In one instance you can be a millionaire, and in the other instance you can be steeped in poverty…The body is made of fire, water, air, earth and ether, and will disappear into these elements. But the soul is permanent - so who are you? Contemporary Hindu interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita .

 

The question currently before us Australians is whether there ought to be an indigenous ‘voice’ in Australian Parliament or not ?

 

As per my belief a natural law is a declaration of belief. Belief is a naturally uniting power. Belief based laws  work through indicators. Common believers do not need to prove ‘facts’ in a court of law. Hence the requirement of ‘beyond reasonable doubt test in criminal cases. Laws that are without belief need facts to be proven. The ‘reasonable doubt’ has its base in relativity.

 

I live in the suburb of Coogee, which is an indigenous name.

 

I wrote as follows in my book Different Logics:

 

Victims of unjust discrimination become ‘common’ when they are abandoned.

  Mr Howard lost his seat in 2007, which effectively was a dismissal from Parliament.

In the case of Bali bombings we fail as a nation to take responsibility for our contribution to racism. Coogee’s particular karmas could be identified with, from the following Wikipedia report:

 

1.  The name Coogee is said to be taken from a local Aboriginal word koojah which means "smelly place".

2.  The Aboriginal population had largely relocated by the mid-19th century after being decimated by disease and violent clashes with early settlers, though some Aboriginal people still live in the area today.

3.  The Coogee Pier (1928-1934

4.  In 1924 construction started on an 'English seaside style' amusement pier at Coogee Beach. On 24 July 1928, the pier was officially opened, reaching 180 metres out into the sea complete with a 1400-seat theatre, a 600 capacity ballroom, a 400-seat restaurant upstairs, small shops and a penny (machine) arcade. Unfortunately, Coogee's rough surf damaged the pier and it was demolished in 1934. Lifeguards recently discovered remains of the pier on the ocean floor about 50 metres out from shore.’

 

The above confirms, Coogee karma will be identified with by true owners of Coogee. That to my mind is known as the ‘dream’ in indigenous language. As per Hindu philosophy, truth of an experience is written at that place at that time. That truth is permanent to that place, and those who ‘see’ it , including in their dreams during dreamtime are Elders. Hence we attribute to the owners of the Land.

 

Indigenous Australians are mothers and Migrant Australians are fathers of this Land. Rendering special status to mothers in parliament will not erase our past wrongs, for they have become sins. They are naturally offset by virtues of those who are in the same circle of Energy.

 

The Victorian premier who entered into a special deal with China, over the Belt & Road program, is from the same Energy circle as the PM who proposed ‘The Voice’. The first casualty, as per my insight is the Commonwealth games.

 

The Coogee parallel is in the Appendix.

 

To be self-balancing, the leader  proposing has to be part of the culture. In this instance, Mr Albanese ought be indigenous to have experienced the pain. Observation based thoughts are relative. If the Voice is to be successful, Mr Albanese needs to resign and come back as a representative of Indigenous Australian. One who respects the Dual Citizenship issue would appreciate that one cannot be from Mars & Venus at the same time.  

 

The Sri Lankan President played this Dual Citizenship game and lost his position. Mr Albanese pampered the Tamil family which had the effect of pampering. The global law needed to prevent such political takeovers is to ban Dual Citizenship for all those who apply on the basis of ‘fear of political wars’. That is the law of Truth that an Australian Elder sees. The true refugee will take rebirth in Australia and ‘forget’ the pain of past. Where there are thoughts of pleasure, there is Equal space for pain to enter. Likewise in the case of ‘The Voice’ those migrants who follow the English ancestry.

 

Appendix

 

 

Dear  Agent,

As per Schedule A2 of the agreement between our Coogee View Owners  Corporation and Strata Choice, Strata Choice has the responsibility to:

1.   ‘Prepare administrative and capital works fund budgets’, the charges for which are included in agreed service fee.

2.   Establish and maintain the trust account and financial records.

3.   Prepare statutory reconciled accounts using cash accounting method. 

4.   Prepare administrative and capital works fund budgets

 

 

Motion 2 proposed for the said meeting is:

‘Ratify motion 7 of the annual general meeting of 7 December 2022 to raise a special levy capital fund’

 

Strata Choice as the Delegated Agent  ought to know of the following requirement of section 79 (5) of  the Act:

‘(5) In estimating amounts to be credited to the capital works fund, an owners corporation is to take into account, anticipated major expenditure identified in the 10-year plan for the capital works fund proposed under this Division.

Aleks, given that the meeting is to approve Capital Works, we the owners need to know how much is needed in total for all Capital Works over 10 years.

 

Taking into account all of the above, and given that the Strata Committee is responsible to act in the interests of owners, please produce in support of Motion 2:

(a)        Ten Year plan on cash basis, for Capital Works of Coogee View. At the end of year 10, we ought to have spent all our monies and hence have zero balance. This is Reverse Depreciation. In Depreciation, the asset value at the end of its lifetime, is zero. This depreciated value is preserved through a ‘Sinking Fund’ which saves enough to replace that asset. The 10 year  Plan is the Budget of the Sinking Fund. If the Plan shows a surplus, it confirms that we are hoarding. If we show negative value, it means we are going bankrupt. In our case we have confirmed ‘hoarding’ which leads to risk of temptation to spend in excess of our needs -for example in roof garden which is an improvement and NOT replacement.

(b)        The certified estimate by an expert that the roof membrane replacement cost is $600,000 plus GST at current cost.

Regards

Gaja

 

 

 

12 July 2023

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

LAWYERS V POLITICIANS

 

Q:  by The Daily Morning : For the most part, a lawyer’s decision to represent a certain client or suspect is judged by the allegations against the suspect. Does a lawyer take into account those allegations when accepting a case?

 

A: by Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) President Kaushalya Nawaratne:  No. Every person is entitled to be heard and represented before a court and is considered innocent until proven guilty. That is a well-established legal principle. There is no question about it just because allegations have been made, and just because the client is a suspect, even if within a popular context.

 

The Public: The lawyer, in most cases, represents for a fee. The fee charged is as per the status of the lawyer.  Hence the ethics of the legal profession has to be strong in terms fees charged.

Q: Is there a code of ethics for lawyers?

A: We certainly have one. We are governed by and are subject to those ethics. These ethics have been accepted by the Supreme Court as well. If one is found to have violated it, penal sanctions would be imposed against them.

The Public: How is one to access the code of Ethics that one’s lawyer is bound by? Most successful litigants get the outcomes they seek and fail to contribute to the improvement  of the court’s system. The litigants who, experience pain of failure, despite following the rules of the system, are the ones whose pain, if unaddressed becomes a permanent wrong that mutates as sin. Sins are beyond human control. It is therefore important to support such litigants to self-represent, if an action is initiated by them against a lawyer.

 

Q: What do you think about the future of the legal profession in Sri Lanka and what changes do you think should be made?

 

…………… We find that in the recent past, many things were said and done in certain domains, especially in Parliament, under the guise of parliamentary privileges. So, these are matters which we will discuss, including in terms of what steps need to be taken to protect the integrity of the legal profession – including those of the members of the judiciary. It is very unprofessional and unwarranted for Parliamentarians to pass comments inside Parliament to which no one has the right to reply. That is something I will take a very firm stance on.

 

The Public: A member of Parliament has the responsibility to speak the truth in Parliament. The right to reply is not with the those outside Parliament, but with other members of Parliament within the sovereign circle of the Parliament. The parallel applies also to the Courtroom where the litigant who is represented by a lawyer has no right to reply. Yet lawyers driven by the urge to win often disregard the litigants. The exceptions I discovered include Mr Harsha Fernando who always took time to hear and include what I had to say. All other lawyers who represented me, lacked listening habits.

As per my discovery, when we express truth the ‘position’ receives it. We may be given failure in court but the value of our truth comes back to us in appropriate form, at the time and in the form of our need. That is how the journalists who publish truth become more naturally powerful than politicians, in some nations. Thus, if we express truth known to us as per someone’s need, Truth has the duty to complete itself and become positive energy.  If lawyers speak the truth in court, the Nation would not depend on Politicians for good governance.

 

11 July 2023

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

DID UNP KARMA DISMISS THE LANKAN PRESIDENT?

 

Majority Sri Lankans follow the system of karma. Rooted in  belief, emotions lead to positive karma. Without belief, they lead to negative karma. The memory of  Sri Lankan protests of last year was surfaced by BBC through its article ‘Sri Lanka: The fate of a protest that toppled a president’. The article draws our attention to Mr Kaluthantri- a port worker amongst the protestors:

 

["I took the presidential flags away because I thought Mr Rajapaksa wouldn't be able to act as president without those official symbols," Mr Kaluthantri said….. Mr Kaluthantri himself surrendered to police and spent 21 days in custody on charges of desecrating the presidential flag]

 

The respect for the position of president is the root of our relationship with the president. The incumbent may or may not be a fit person for the position, but to the extent our investment in the position is true,  the protests manifest at the appropriate level. In the BBC example, the protestor surrendered to the police and accepted the punishment. This confirms that at his level of leadership he followed the law that was known to him. Hence his truth also influenced the resignation of the president. This is the philosophy of karma.

 

Laws facilitate orderly conduct. Where we lack belief, laws common to all concerned is essential to maintain harmony. The 1978 constitution of Sri Lanka, under the leadership of President J R Jayawardene, opened the pathways for Sri Lanka to become more global.  This is presented by Wikipedia as follows:

 

‘Jayewardena's foreign policy was aligned with American policies (earning him the nickname 'Yankie Dickie') much to the chagrin of India.’

 

By using the American immigration system and then giving it up to become president of Sri Lanka, Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa effectively devalued his investment in the American immigration system and therefore became the Opposition of President J R Jayawardene who opened the gates of globalisation and thereby strengthened the investment in global democracy by Sri Lanka.

 

Karma is the system of truth. It is perfectly balanced in terms of  causes and effects. To the extent we stay within the truth realised by us, we would find out why something happened, as per our own need, as well as the need of the group we feel part of.  By finding out why, we become the force that driving force of that community. That was how Gandhi became the force that diffused the emotional violent, reactive power of the ‘untouchables’. Gandhi thus raised the level of manifestation to his level, to maintain non-violent response. This is the lesson every protestor needs to learn from Sri Lanka.

 

09 July 2023

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

WELFARE COSTS VS BENEFITS

 

Welfare payments automatically generate their ‘other side’. If the payment is a cost, the receipt is an income. If the payment is an asset, the receipt is a liability. The 2015 government seems to have treated it as an asset which became liability in the books of the recipients. The way this liability is settled, varies as per our respective cultures.

 

As per my culture, a senior within an independent structure has the duty to take care of the junior’s needs. In turn the junior has the responsibility to respect the senior. This then settles the debt at that level. In the case of welfare recipients, if  they fail to respect the providers that the government represents,  then the debt becomes a sin. A sin in this instance is negative Energy against those who work and pay taxes. Taken as a whole, the motivation to work, is continuously offset by the sin of welfare recipients.

 

It is therefore necessary for the government to ensure that the liability is less in value than the asset generated by  the providers of  welfare funds.  Hence the move to recognise this is positive and healthy.

 

The alleged victims of the Robodebt scheme stand to lose most, if they knowingly or otherwise, contribute to developing this excessive liability, by finding fault with a particular government. Such an approach would lead to pampering the welfare recipients. This in turn promotes the subjective system of autocracy and weakens our investment in the objective system needed to develop democracy.

 

Those who take ‘free’ money eventually lose intelligence to attract work opportunities.  Excessive punishment where disciplinary action would be sufficient, would contribute to separatism.

08 July 2023

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

THE THEN OPPOSITION’S ROLE IN ROBODEBT

 

 

The purpose of  Commission of inquiry ought to be educational. A ‘judgement’  finding fault with a previous government confirms weak faith in the sovereignty of the parliament by those who use such judgment.

 

The Robodebt inquiry report indicates such risk which in turn returns to parliament through voters who fail to realise their sovereignty . The following introduction is from the ABC:

 

What is Robodebt?

It's the informal name given to a debt recovery program starting in 2015 that falsely accused members of the community of owing money to the government.

The Robodebt scheme automatically issued notices to welfare recipients identified as having debts through a process of income averaging.

This compares a person's reported income with their income as measured by the Australian Tax Office.

While similar techniques were used in the past, the scale of Robodebt's debt recovery was unprecedented.

Shortly after the scheme was implemented, people started to complain over being issued bills for debts that simply didn't exist.’

The parallel of the above happened in our strata body corporate, in which my claim that a resolution was not lawful even if passed by majority , if the requirements of the law in terms of the Budget had not been satisfied, was dismissed.

 

We the people, empower governance and the parliament in turn shares its sovereignty with the People. A sovereign parliament would be self-governing during the elected period. Its actions need to be in compliance with the law. If the government acted in breach of the law, it is the duty of the Opposition in parliament to highlight this and walkout in protest, if it was not heard by the government of the time.

The Opposition in parliament is equally responsible as the government, to ensure that the policies are within the existing laws. A weak Opposition weakens the Sovereignty of the whole.

As per my knowledge, Australian Labor led by Mr Bill Shorten, was in Opposition at the time the said scheme was introduced in 2015. Mr Shorten is currently the minister responsible for Centrelink, through which the Robodebts were raised.  It therefore seems strongly like a political move, rather than governance action.

If criminal action is recommended there needs to be confirmations of wrong-doings tested beyond reasonable doubt. Such action needs to be against particular individuals who gained as individuals.  

The principle of limitation prevents action against politicians by those who had the responsibility to prevent a manifestation. If the government was the virus, the Opposition had the responsibility to be the vaccine. Morally, an opposition taking action for wrongs that could have prevented during its time in opposition, is pampering itself. The then Opposition was ‘out of time’ as well as ‘out of place’. 

The wrongs by a government are carried by the ‘position’ and not the individual holding the position, acting in good faith.

 

03 July 2023

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

 

LANKA’S LLRC & NSW’S ICAC

 

I recently wrote ‘Opposition is an essential part of Democracy. The reason, to my mind is to eliminate the vertical hierarchy in Autocracy so the democratic energy flows laterally. Equal status allocated to Opposition, facilitates ‘Freedom of Expression’. To be effective, Opposition needs to be belief-based. The reason for this is the exponentiality of Truth. Belief is truth in the form given by us. Often Opposition is expressed in relative form.

 

Today, I was referred to the article ‘Lanka warned of Extraterritorial jurisdiction’ by the Island newspaper.

When reading, I felt the need to take Opposition position on the basis of my own truth. This I believe would facilitate the global sharing of energies.

As per the Island article ‘One of Sri Lanka’s celebrated career diplomats, the late Jayantha Dhanapala, discussed the issue of accountability when he addressed the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), headed by one-time Attorney General, the late C. R. de Silva, on 25 August, 2010.’

The LLRC, like the NSW ICAC and the Australian Human Rights Commission, have the mandate to Educate. This requires them to be conscious of Research without any judgment. Once they ‘judge’ in their own thoughts, they have the duty to recuse themselves from the inquiry.

As per the outcomes, at public level, we are not able to identify with any lessons learnt through the LLRC. If the Government had learnt, the Constitutional crisis of 2018 and the Presidential resignation of 2022 would have been prevented.

 

The article continues to report as follows:

‘ Dhanapala, in his submissions, said: “Now I think it is important for us to expand that concept to bring in the culpability of those members of the international community who have subscribed to the situation that has caused injury to the civilians of a nation. I talk about the way in which terrorist groups are given sanctuary; harboured; and supplied with arms and training by some countries with regard to their neighbours or with regard to other countries. We know that in our case this has happened, and I don’t want to name countries, but even countries which have allowed their financial procedures and systems to be abused in such a way that money can flow from their countries in order to buy arms and ammunition that cause deaths, maiming and destruction of property in Sri Lanka are to blame and there is therefore a responsibility to protect our civilians and the civilians of other nations from that kind of behaviour on the part of members of the international community. And I think this is something that will echo within many countries in the Non-Aligned Movement, where Sri Lanka has a much respected position and where I hope we will be able to raise this issue.”

As per my investment in the subject matter, Dr Dhanapala was referring to India’s training of militants. Concluding that the LTTE were Terrorists is in breach of the fundamental Rights to express one’s Belief.

Sri Lankan Parliament introduced ‘Buddhism foremost’ article in the 1972 constitution. This is now in article 9. As per article 10 of the 1978 Constitution :

‘10. Every person is entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.’

14. (1) Every citizen is entitled to –

(e) the freedom, either by himself or in association with others, and either in public or in private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching

 

As per the above, India is a Natural Elder for Hindus. As per the Hindu bible – the Baghawath Geetha,  one is entitled to fight against one’s own government to protect one’s own sovereignty and one’s own homeland. This homeland is as per one’s belief. If the LTTE was believed to be fighting for their homeland, India as the birthplace  of the Baghawath Geetha, had the moral authority to train the LTTE.

Dr Dhanapala seems to have little about this umbilical cord connection between Hindus of Sri Lanka with their Hindu Elders in India. Also, seems to have forgotten that he had his book ‘China and the Third World’, was published not in China but in New Delhi, in 1985.

But Truth had already surfaced anyway, leaving a trail of ‘facts’ in its pathway. Some published by Wikipedia are:

The Hambantota International Port

The Hambantota International Port is a deep water port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, which has been leased to China on a 99-year lease. Opened in 2010, it is Sri Lanka's second largest port, after Colombo.

The plan to build the port was revived by Mahinda Rajapaksa, a native of Hambantota, after he was elected president in 2005

The first phase of the port was inaugurated on 18 November 2010 by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, whom the port was named after

In modern times, the port is expected to become part of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road" (the maritime part of China's Belt and Road Initiative) that runs from the Chinese coast via the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, …..

 

Given that India & China are each other’s natural Opposition. One is entitled to conclude that India was training its heirs to  defend their own Hindu heritage in Sri Lanka, starting with Kathirgamam area where Hambantota is.

 

01 July 2023

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

 

ICAC ACTED IN BREACH OF DEMOCRACY

 

On 27 October 2021, I expressed my experience-based belief about the ICAC under the title ‘IS ICAC Being Frivolous?’

Back then, I viewed the matter through the  Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988.  The main objective is stated as ‘to promote the integrity and accountability of public administration by constituting an Independent Commission Against Corruption as an independent and accountable body—

 

My focus today is through section 2A (a)(ii) of this Act which highlights the pathway through which to achieve  the stated purpose:

2A(a)(ii)  to educate public authorities, public officials and members of the public about corruption and its detrimental effects on public administration and on the community.

 

Educating at tertiary level, needs to be ‘free’ of judgment. The process must educate each member of the public at their own level. In many ways, our former premier Ms Berejiklian highlighted that she was democratic and prompted me to state in October ’21 -‘We Australians pride ourselves over our laws relating to de facto relationships. All that was demoted to ‘mythology’ by the ICAC’

In Democracy, the truth of the citizen, expressed through the lawful process ranks above facts based judgment through the law. The ordinary folks without positions have the opportunity to vote for the person and be part of the experience of manifestation of a fact. This is how soul-power works.

The believer does not need visible evidence to establish that s/he is right. This is the value of Affidavit evidence. Belief is a natural power that connects minds. This is the power that drives the system of Democracy. When an inquiry is driven by evidence, it loses the value of belief and becomes relative. The role of ICAC, to the extent it relied on evidence became that of the Judiciary.

The current government has the duty to preserve the integrity of the Parliament, by taking action against the ICAC, for abuse of power.