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After damning the Commonwealth Bank's management, regulators want the bank to fix itself

  • Written by: Helen Bird, Course Director, Master of Corporate Governance & Research Fellow, Swinburne Law School, Swinburne University of Technology

A report on the Commonwealth Bank’s governance, culture and accountability has stripped away the bank’s delusion that it is well run and a model of good governance.

The report by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is a damning indictment of every aspect of CBA management, from the board of directors to executive...

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Labor MP Tim Hammond quits for family reasons, creating byelection in WA

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Labor Party faces a byelection in the seat of Perth after first-term MP Tim Hammond announced he was leaving politics because of the difficulties of being separated from his young children.

“I thought I had an appreciation of how to manage my duties as a federal member of parliament in a way that did not have such an impact on my...

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I go to the gym every day. Why can’t I lose weight?

  • Written by: Tim Olds, Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
I go to the gym every day. Why can’t I lose weight?Some people reward themselves for exercise with food, stymying weight-loss efforts. from www.shutterstock.com

Liz is a typical 50-something woman, fit, 70 kg, 30% body fat. She goes to the gym every day, and runs for 35 minutes on the treadmill at 10km/h. But, as she tells me rather often, she can’t lose weight. So what’s going on here:...

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Greens urge Buffett rule to get more tax from high income earners

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Greens tax policy, released on Wednesday, would hit high income earners and target corporate tax avoidance.

The Greens plan would bring in “a Buffett rule” to ensure higher income earners paid their fair share of tax by limiting deductions made by those earning more than A$300,000.

“This will force high income earners to pay a...

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  2. Recent Australian droughts may be the worst in 800 years
  3. Is your genome really your own? The public and forensic value of DNA
  4. The government could be boosting the budget bottom line with a change to how it taxes gas
  5. Still Point Turning is a vital affirmation of trans people through the story of Catherine McGregor
  6. what works and what to keep in mind when choosing a private treatment provider
  7. six rules for improving city bus services
  8. The waves of "reputational damage" spread far and wide
  9. Want to eat better? You might be able to train yourself to change your tastes
  10. Australia's reptiles may be spreading rat poison through the food chain
  11. Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data
  12. eSports are shifting the focus of Australia's sporting passion
  13. Planet Earth II Live unites art and science in a celebration of nature
  14. APRA and ASIC have the legal power to sack bank heads, but they need willpower
  15. It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements
  16. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: 'Dancing out of depression'
  17. To create safer cities for everyone, we need to avoid security that threatens
  18. The big four accounting firms struggle to shake their sexist pasts
  19. As Emmanuel Macron heads to Australia, the relationship is more important than ever
  20. Counting the costs of illness and injury on Australian workers
  21. With support for arts funding declining, Australia must get better at valuing culture
  22. Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading away
  23. but do we really need it?
  24. bandicoots live among us in Melbourne
  25. five articles to get you informed on sugar and Big Sugar's role in food policy
  26. There is still no US Ambassador to Australia, but it is neither an insult nor a concern
  27. Launching in May, the InSight mission will measure marsquakes to explore the interior of Mars
  28. the World Expo reshaped Brisbane because no one wanted the party to end
  29. Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesion
  30. In the debate about Australian content on TV, we need to look further than the ABC
  31. Why does ice make a cracking sound when water is poured on it?
  32. why is it increasing and who benefits?
  33. Why kickstarting small business exports could boost stagnant wages
  34. how Australian museums regulate the display of human remains
  35. how to deal with aggression, tantrums and defiance
  36. Gonski review attacks Australian schooling quality and urges individualised teaching approach
  37. North and South Korea met
  38. AI can help in crime prevention, but we still need a human in charge
  39. where to find a puffer jacket that doesn't warm the Earth
  40. Michelle Grattan on the government abandoning the Medicare levy
  41. do we need company tax cuts?
  42. How injuries change our brain and how we can help it recover
  43. Why Democrats have filed a lawsuit against Russia – and what Australian politicians should learn from it
  44. Interest only loans are an economic debacle that could bust the property market
  45. how pleasure affects our brain
  46. China's recycling 'ban' throws Australia into a very messy waste crisis
  47. It's funny to name species after celebrities, but there's a serious side too
  48. Designing the compassionate city to overcome built-in biases and help us live better
  49. Friday essay: recovering a narrative of place
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