Friday, October 3, 2025

Ethics secondary in life insurance

Benjamin Koh, SMH March 11, 2016 Ethics and insurance don’t go hand in hand The behaviour of Commonwealth Bank’s financial planning division was predicted several years prior in research by Dr June Smith from Victoria...
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The ugly story of Dick Smith, from float to failure

The ugly story of Dick Smith, from float to failure Jeffrey Knapp, UNSW Australia Early last month, the Senate announced an inquiry with terms of reference that cover the collapse of Dick Smith Electronics. There is a...
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Here’s What China’s Middle Classes Really Earn — and Spend

China's working population — 770.4 million people — is the largest in the world. But the middle class that dominates its consumer market still only accounts for a tiny fraction of that number: less than 2...
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Government still wants to increase students’ contribution to university funding

In a speech to a Universities Australia dinner, Education Minister Simon Birmingham stressed that he would not rush into a new higher education policy. Education Minister Simon Birmingham has flagged that the government is still...
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ABS slammed for breach of trust over ‘intrusive’ 2016 Census data matching plan

by Jacob Greber AFR Australia's former top statistician and a leading privacy group have slammed the Australian Bureau of Statistics for quietly reinstating a plan defeated a decade ago to retain names and addresses from the 2016 census,...
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Sharapova case: How athletes have fallen foul of the rules

Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has admitted failing a drug test because she didn't know the substance (Meldonium) was on a banned list under another name. Given how crucial tests are to athletes' performance...
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How Much Can You Fight Inequality? Canada’s About to Find Out

By Christopher Flavelle On a recent snowy afternoon in Ottawa, Jean-Yves Duclos sat in his as-yet-undecorated office overlooking Canada's Parliament, reflecting on the limits of government. Until last fall, Duclos was an economics...
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CommInsure: Scandal to hit CBA brand, again

'The conduct of this bank is anything but ethical.' Lawyer Michael Bates says the CommInsure claims are 'certainly the biggest thing I’ve heard as a litigation lawyer.' Commonwealth Bank's life insurance scandal is predicted to inflict...
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