Edmund Tadros - The Financial Review - Thursday 12 November 2020 Listed companies could be forced to put their audit up for tender, or explain to investors why they won't open up the role to other providers, as MPs push ahead with proposals designed to disrupt...
Anthony Galloway - Sydney Morning Herald - Friday 07 November Federal Liberal MPs, including Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, want a party member who has been charged with preparing an act of foreign interference to be suspended from the party. Di Sanh Duong, president of the Oceania Federation of...
Sydney Morning Herald - David Crowe - Wednesday 11 November 2020 The Treasurer has signalled plans to toughen enforcement at the corporate watchdog, unveiling draft laws to crack down on aggressive sales tactics in personal finance. Josh Frydenberg aired his concerns about the Australian Securities and Investments...
Senator Paterson on the Bolt Report: Fitzgibbon, Four Corners, US election...
Senator Paterson on Sky News: RBA rate cuts, US election...
David Crowe - The Sydney Morning Herald - Wednesday 04 November 2020 The corporate regulator will be asked to explain how its leadership structure protects Australians, as a key parliamentary committee expresses growing frustration with the way the peak agency is run. The move raises the prospect...
Ronald Mizen and Michael Pelly - The Australian Financial Review - Thursday 29 October 2020 The Morrison government has put a conservative stamp on the High Court with the appointment of two justices who are expected to shift the dynamic of the court to the right. Federal...
Richard Gluyas - The Australian - Wednesday 28 October 2020 The ASIC chair’s expenses scandal refuses to die It’s hard to imagine things getting worse for ASIC chairman James Shipton, but sure enough they did in Senate estimates on Tuesday. No matter where she turned, and despite her...
Katina Curtis - Sydney Morning Herald - Wednesday 28 October 2020 The acting head of the corporate watchdog doesn't understand why a payment to cover its chairman's tax bill blew out more than 12 times from what was initially agreed to more than $118,000. Australian Securities and...
John Kehoe - Australian Financial Review - Wednesday October 28 2020 The chairman of the corporate watchdog, James Shipton, did not tell senior colleagues for more than a year that the Auditor-General had raised concerns about a housing allowance of almost $70,000 paid to one of...