Australia’s Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission found 45 of Bupa’s 72 nursing homes failed health and safety standards. In 22 homes the health and safety of residents was deemed at ‘serious risk’.
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Australia’s top scientist Alan Finkel says too many poor quality research papers are being published in Australia, and the system may inadvertently encourage academics to behave badly.
Bankers put on a lunch to sell their Banking Code of Conduct. They didn’t take questions.
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“Balanced scorecards”, of the kind countenanced by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, are inherently unbalanced.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he’ll act on the Commission’s findings. But he has already backslided on mortgage brokers and the rest of the recommendations don’t go far enough.
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People expect financial institutions to serve them better in the wake of the royal commission. There’s reason to believe they won’t, for long.
Adele Ferguson, the celebrated journalist who many credit as the driving force behind the banking royal commission, says that the commission ‘didn’t go anywhere near far enough.’
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Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the ‘disappointing’ banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers
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Today on Media Files, it's journalism versus the big banks. We're hearing from Adele Ferguson, the celebrated journalist who many credit as the driving force behind the banking royal commission.
APRA and ASIC will do their jobs badly without public oversight. The government hasn’t agreed it will public.
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The government has agreed to create an independently-chaired body to report on the performance of ASIC and APRA, but it hasn’t said its reports will be made public.
There’s concern that paying upfront for the services of mortgage brokers would frighten customers away. But it needn’t, if they provide good service and explain what are charging for.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will deliver the 2019 budget on April 2.
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Superannuation fund supremo Greg Combet has a radical idea: to promote the business concept of ‘long-term value’.
Within weeks of adopting most of the banking royal commission’s recommendations, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has backed down on one of them.
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The ASX was late to the corporate governance party and its fourth reheat remains as flawed as ever.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg with Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton. His new powers are imperfect, but they will help.
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Suddenly, ASIC is about to have real power. It’ll be easier to get prosecutions and they will hurt, even if the law remains less than completely clear.
Research shows combining maths education and financial literacy concepts is a better way to teach children good financial habits and boost numeracy.
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In trying to be values-free (like physics & chemistry), business schools have succeeded in justifying amoral behaviour. No more! We’ve seen the results in the Banking Royal Commission.
Most mortgage brokers provide good service.
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More than a third (35.4%) of respondents surveyed by the Australian Leadership Index believe banking and financial institutions show “no leadership for the greater good”.
Executive Director @ Australian Institute of Performance Sciences, Strategic Partner @ Swinburne University MedTechVic, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy and Governance at, University of Technology Sydney