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Key Points and Recommendations from Royal Commission into Banking Misconduct

POLITICS
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

POLITICS
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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The vomit principle, the dead bat, the freeze: how political spin doctors’ tactics aim to shape the news

POLITICS
The vomit principle, the dead bat, the freeze: how political spin doctors' tactics aim to shape the news Caroline Fisher, University of Canberra It’s election season again and behind the scenes, the political “spin doctors” are working around the clock. They are the campaign advisers, social media strategists, press secretaries and others...
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Political donations 2017-18: search all the declarations by Australian parties

POLITICS
Today Australian voters have discovered who was bankrolling the nation’s political parties more than 18 months ago. Gambling lobby gave $500,000 to Liberals ahead of Tasmanian election In the lead-up to the Tasmanian election, the Liberals surprised many with a costly saturation advertising blitz, which analysts believed represented the most expensive...
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Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission Report

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South Australian report also finds negligence and unlawful actions in drawing up multibillion-dollar deal to save river system Let's go through the responsible ministers' responses, one by one. Environment Minister Melissa Price has not been spotted anywhere near the vicinity of the crime scene or fronted the media for comment. Minister for...
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Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it’s not just the technical risks

POLITICS
Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks The Narrabri ‘Big Picture’ event in November 2015 brought together people from across the region in opposition to coal seam gas extraction.. Selen Ercan, Author provided Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Australian National University; Selen A. Ercan, University of...
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Murray Darling & Great Artesian Basin are dying

POLITICS
Talk about killing your darlings. Our habitual Australia Day flags-and-dates furore tells more about our insecurities than we’d like. Easy solutions to both dilemmas present themselves. Lose the day. Don’t change the date, dump it. We hardly need another holiday so soon after the Weeks-of-the-Long-Hammock and if (as we profess) it’s love for our...
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We’re awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people

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We're awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people Nicholas Gruen, University of Technology Sydney It’s almost Australia Day and hundreds of us are in line for an award. Sadly, as unpublished research by my firm Lateral Economics reveals, many will get it for little more than doing their job. And...
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The truth about political donations: there is so much we don’t know

POLITICS
Approximately $15 million in donations was disclosed by donors, a small proportion of parties' total funding. The Liberal Party received $95 million in funding across its eight separate divisions, which includes donations and other receipts such as investment returns and rent. The ALP received funding of $71 million, the Nationals $12...
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