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The off-topic Conversation #93

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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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The crunch keeps coming on Fairfax – but does the blame lie solely with management?

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Last week a reported 20 to 30 Fairfax Media journalists were made involuntarily redundant. While recognising in a dynamic economy that businesses will contract and expand all the time, we should never lose sight of the human cost of that process. Getting sacked must a traumatic event for anyone – getting sacked through no fault of your own,...

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Banking regulation – descent into farce

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It may be the effect of the election but the regulation of banking in Australia appears to be descending into farce.

Just last week, maybe in anticipation of adverse events to come, the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) quietly announced that it was getting out of the BBSW benchmark business:

“…benchmark administration has...

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