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Banking Royal Commission: How Hayne failed remote Australia

  • Written by Jonathon Louth, Research Fellow, The Australian Alliance for Social Enterprise, University of South Australia
Banking Royal Commission: How Hayne failed remote AustraliaThe remote community of Urapunga in South East Arnhem Land, more at the mercy of the finance industry than most.J. Louth, CC BY-SA

It’s been an enormous year for the financial services industry.

First there was a Productivity Commission report calling for major changes to superannuation, then a Senate inquiry into financial services targeted...

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