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Why the new banking laws won’t be the slam dunk the government is expecting

  • Written by: Helen Bird, Course Director, Master of Corporate Governance & Research Fellow, Swinburne Law School, Swinburne University of Technology
imageAPRA chair Wayne Byres says the regulator is unlikely to use its new enforcement powers. AAP

The federal government is set to enact new laws covering Australian banks, senior executives and directors. Called the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR), it imposes new legal obligations on banks and their senior management and empowers the...

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Banking's new BEAR is a teddy bear not a grizzly

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

The government’s new Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) legislation is a confused mess that is not going to do what it claims to do, which is make bankers accountable for scandals.

Rather than being a terrifying polar or grizzly, it is already an old teddy bear that has had the stuffing knocked out of it.

Earlier this year when...

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Bob Brown wins his case, but High Court leaves the door open to laws targeting protesters

  • Written by: Brendan Gogarty, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania
imageBob Brown was arrested under an anti-protest law after refusing to obey police directions to leave a forestry coup at Lapoinya State Forest.AAP

The High Court has ruled today by a 6:1 majority in favour of Bob Brown and Jessica Hoyt’s challenge to the validity of a Tasmanian anti-protest law. The decision is a significant win for forestry and...

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The government's energy policy hinges on some tricky wordplay about coal's role

  • Written by: John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland

The most important thing to understand about the federal government’s new National Energy Guarantee is that it is designed not to produce a sustainable and reliable electricity supply system for the future, but to meet purely political objectives for the current term of parliament.

Those political objectives are: to provide a point of policy...

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  1. Insurance changes not enough to drive real mental health reform
  2. Federal government unveils 'National Energy Guarantee' – experts react
  3. Ethics by numbers: how to build machine learning that cares
  4. Curious Kids: Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different colours?
  5. Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?
  6. Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
  7. Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?
  8. Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)
  9. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  10. Why craft beer is going corporate
  11. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  12. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  13. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  14. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  15. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  16. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  17. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  18. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  19. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  20. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  21. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  22. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  23. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  24. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  25. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  26. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists
  27. We all have to die of something, so why bother being healthy?
  28. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  29. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  30. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  31. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  32. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  33. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  34. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  35. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  36. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  37. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  38. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  39. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  40. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  41. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  42. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  43. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  44. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  45. How Melbourne's west was greened
  46. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion
  47. More sightings of an endangered species don't always mean it's recovering
  48. Translation technology is useful, but should not replace learning languages
  49. Turnbull's ratings fall in another bad Newspoll
  50. Power bills can fall – but the main attention must be on affordability: ACCC

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