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An Australian student denounced his university’s ties to China. Then he became a target [Los Angeles Times]
Before the text messages threatening to kill his family, Drew Pavlou gathered a small group of students on a busy walkway at the University of Queensland to protest the Chinese government’s repression of Uighur Muslims and crackdown on Hong Kong.
“Hey-hey, ho-ho Xi Jinping has got to go!”
As he denounced the Communist leader, hundreds of counter-demonstrators massed around a colonnade at the campus in Brisbane, Australia. Some were students from China; others appeared older. They yelled pro-Beijing slogans and played the Chinese national anthem over loudspeakers.
Law firms reduce graduate intake
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Australia’s leading law firms have reduced their graduate intake for 2021 after a year in which some trainees spent their first six months on the job without meeting a co-worker.
Only Allens and Norton Rose Fulbright reported any significant increase as most of the top dozen firms by size in The Australian Financial Review Law Partnership Survey either kept numbers steady or reported slight falls.
The class of 2020: Clayton Uz graduate lawyers Rosannah Iemma, Suryansh Gupta, Victoria Hu, Lindsay Norton and Daniel Low.
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Big six firms King & Wood Mallesons and Ashurst each reported eight fewer graduates for next year, making them largely responsible for the total falling from 727 to 718.
And Minter Ellison offered the opinion that there was nothing unusual about ASIC paying Shipton’s tax advice bills stating: “In our experience, it is standard practice for an employer to cover the reasonable cost of tax advice (including tax filings) where an executive is relocating countries to take up a position. Typically, the employer would arrange that advice themselves, through their own advisers, and would validate the expenses (and their reasonableness) through their usual processes”.
The documents provided to the Parliamentary committee by ASIC show that in August this year it was asking the ANAO to take the Minter Ellison legal opinion into account together with advice from the Australian Government Solicitor which it said had found that it was “reasonable for ASIC to treat the Tax Expenses as expenses incurred on relocation within the mean of a (Remuneration Tribunal) determination”.
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