Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
18
May 2020
Australia!
Thou Shall Not Profit from China’s Pain
[Australia has received
international backing for an independent coronavirus inquiry as trade tensions
with China come under heavy strain.
More
than 60 countries including Russia, Indonesia, India, Japan, Britain, Canada,
New Zealand and all 27 European Union member states have co-sponsored the
motion…..
A
group of 54 African nations has joined Australia's push for an inquiry into
coronavirus, taking the total number of countries on board to 116.]
– SBS News Reports
This morning I wrote to our Managing Committee of
the Owners’ Corporation:
[In democracy
the true experience of the lay person who brings it to the common forum
has
to be equal to or greater in value than the benefit of the law to law-makers and maintainers.
]
Australia’s experience due to the virus, to my mind
was far less painful than that of China’s.
Given that we managed the pandemic as an independent sovereign nation and not
as a coalition of nations, this pathway seems to be to ‘tell’ China. As per my knowledge this push by the
Australian government seems to be happening through the European Union, instead
of through the UN. Do we Australians have the right to ‘influence’ a ‘foreign’
Union?
If Australia has evidence of negligence on the part of
China, it has the authority to seek compensation for the pain suffered due to
such negligence. If Australia pushes for action beyond that – it has the effect
of Profiting from the experience. When we profit – we move out of the
protection of natural immunity of our Sovereignty. Then the virus would return
with a vengeance in one form or the other. This could include serious economic damage
and weaken the mind of the working Australian who drives the economy.
Our authority to find fault with each other comes from
our sovereignty as a whole. In current civilization, we need law common to both
sides through which to lay our claim. A law by its very nature is ‘common’. It
has to be - to qualify as law. Likewise
the structure through which we question each other needs to be ‘Common’ and
Equally accessible by both sides.
There is a wise saying in Hindu philosophy – according
to which one who discovers her/his truth would identify with another’s truth. The
Australian government has the duty to first find out why we Australians got
infected. The most obvious reason is travel – especially by ship in the case of
Australia. This morning I presented this philosophy as follows:
[The Committee has shown serious lack of respect for me
as an Australian. As a woman of Sri
Lankan origin, the way I interpret the law in the first instance, could be
different to the way migrants from other parts of the world or Indigenous
Australians would interpret the law. In fact it could even be different to
the way my daughter who is a lawyer would interpret the law in the first
instance. In this instance, in the first instance I accepted the interpretation
of the Management until I was asked to pay for the making of by-law. This did not seem right – as per my
wisdom in senior management and in policy. Hence I went more deeply into it. …..
I appreciate that members of the Managing
Committee may lack expertise in professional management of meetings and
decision-making through meetings. A special resolution is needed when fundamental
rights are affected. It is when the committee lacks such expertise to interpret
the law that one needs advice of legal experts from outside – including to make
a by-law. A law by its very nature is
‘common’. It has to be - to qualify as law.
Getting each lot owner to pass a by-law is in breach of this fundamental
requirement of any law. The soul/spirit of the law is absent in such an application.
]
As per my knowledge, majority Australians do not know
about a law through which action could be taken against China. If China is not
the intended ‘other side’ our Australian government is seriously damaging our
Sovereignty by acting beyond the law.
Where we do not have laws to punish or reward, we have to leave it to the scientists to find
a cure and/or a vaccine as part of the whole system of health-care and not make the pandemic a profit-making
project.
The reasons why Australian government would do this
could include race. In China’s shoes I would complain to the UN on that basis
against Australia and the EU nations. My frame of mind was presented as follows
this morning in our local environment:
[The reasons why I would exercise my rights would
include unlawful discrimination outside merit basis, - on the basis of Race (the most apparent difference) , Gender
and age in that order. Right now I include all of you as part of the Coogee
View family and hence I choose not to invoke that reason against Xxxxx and Xxxx
who seem more my children’s age than mine. But the more I am treated as an
‘outsider’ the more conscious I would become of the above reasons. It is my
DUTY as a law-abiding Australian to be conscious of such reasons when I am hurt
outside merit basis – as my independent interpretation of the merit.]
The only system that never fails is driven by our
Soul-power.
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