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The off-topic Conversation #140

  • Written by: Molly Glassey, Audience Development Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Why we can’t rely on corporations to save us from climate change

  • Written by: Christopher Wright, Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
imageManagers' short term incentives mean they can't follow through on grand climate change programs.Shutterstock

While businesses have been principal agents in increasing greenhouse gas emissions, they are also seenbymany as crucial to tackling climate change.

However, our research shows how corporations’ ambitious pro-climate proposals are...

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For bankers, acountability does not start at home

  • Written by: Pat McConnell, Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University

When the CEOs of the four major banks fronted the House Economics Committee, the common thread was that accountability does not lie with them. Even after a decade of scandals like interest rate rigging, gouging of interest-only mortgagees and alleged money laundering.

In August, AUSTRAC filed a claim against the Commonwealth Bank for some 52,000...

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The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a failure of ministerial responsibility

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
imageMichaelia Cash has refused to resign over misleading parliament, claiming she was unaware of one of her staffer’s actions.AAP/Lukas Coch

The federal opposition is continuing to call for Employment Minister Michaelia Cash’s resignation, claiming she misled parliament this week after repeatedly telling a Senate estimates committee that...

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