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Taxpayers should not be subsidising lifestyle of wealthy retirees

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A reverse death tax that helps the rich The dividend imputation system is a rort Australia can’t afford, write Emma Dawson and Tim Lyons. Australia’s dividend imputation system was introduced by Paul Keating in 1987. Its purpose was to eliminate double taxation on dividends from company profits. Under Keating’s original system,...
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The prime minister is wrong to pretend that it’s the economy’s loss if high-income earners have less money to spend

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At a time when the number of people studying economics is at a record low, the number of politicians citing economics 101 seems to be at a record high. Take our current prime minister, Scott Morrison. When asked to provide evidence that closing tax loopholes and collecting more revenue...
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After previous failures, doubts linger over the ability of APRA and ASIC to lift their game

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Doubts have been raised whether the nation’s two peak financial regulators will be able to sharply lift their efforts after the banking royal commission recommended they take more strong-arm action while facing extra oversight from an independent authority. Both the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments...
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Hayne’s failure to tackle bank structure means that in a decade or so another treasurer will have to call another royal commission

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Hayne’s failure to tackle bank structure means that in a decade or so another treasurer will have to call another royal commission Andrew Linden, RMIT University and Warren Staples, RMIT University Every 10 to 15 years it’s the same. Ever since financial deregulation in the 1980s we’ve had a finance industry scandal...
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Compensation scheme to follow Hayne’s indictment of financial sector

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Compensation scheme to follow Hayne’s indictment of financial sector Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The Morrison government has promised to establish a compensation scheme of last resort - paid for by the financial services industry - as it seeks to avoid the outcome of the banking royal commission becoming a damaging...
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Banking Royal Commission: no commissions, no exemptions, no fees without permission. Hayne gets the government to do a U-turn

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Banking Royal Commission: no commissions, no exemptions, no fees without permission. Hayne gets the government to do a U-turn Peter Martin, The Conversation Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was glossing over history when he said the final report of the banking royal commission “endorsed many of the themes and individual reforms the...
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Yes, Kenneth: Coalition response to banking inquiry is pure politics

POLITICS
The government hopes to neutralise the shocking royal commission evidence by accepting everything Kenneth Hayne recommended In political terms, it’s blindingly obvious why. A federal election is in sight. The Coalition is vulnerable on this issue, having spent years obstructing a deeply necessary inquiry that unearthed a trove of malfeasance...
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Key Points and Recommendations from Royal Commission into Banking Misconduct

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Kenneth Hayne’s report into the banking and financial services industry makes 24 referrals to the regulators Asic and Apra to take action over misconduct. It also made 76 recommendations for how the problems can be fixed and contained scathing criticism of executives: Banks may face criminal charges after final royal...
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Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry

BUSINESS
The evidence to emerge from the royal commission's grilling of the heads of Australia's biggest banks revealed a failed culture that paid staff highly and an underfunded regulator that failed to to hold them to account 'It's not even scratched the surface'    
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The Great Artesian Basin – Rivers in crisis

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The environmental and ecological disasters occurring at the Murray-Darling Basin are driven by capitalism, writes John Passant. ABOUT 2.6 MILLION Australians live in the Murray-Darling Basin. Three million get their drinking water from it. The Basin covers 1 million square kilometres and produces $24 bn of agricultural products. With about one-third...
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