John Kehoe - The Australian Financial Review - Friday 15 January 2021 As Josh Frydenberg ponders the corporate regulator's future leadership personnel and structure, a big question hanging over the Treasurer is whether a lawyer or an economist should lead the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Lawyers...
Chris Merritt - The Australian - 08 January 2021 John Howard will not be happy about this. But the unforeseen consequences of a decision taken by his government have helped divert millions of dollars from the business community into the coffers of one of the Labor...
Chris Merritt - The Australian - Friday 01 January 2021 It’s almost possible to feel a twinge of sympathy for the titans of Melbourne’s class action industry. For one glorious year it must have looked as though all their Christmases had come at once. At the...
Charlotte Grieve - Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday 22 December 2020 A federal committee tasked with probing litigation funders has recommended tough new regulations for class actions, including a crackdown on fees and new laws to stamp out competing claims. The financial services committee headed by Liberal...
Adeshola Ore - The Australian - Tuesday 22 December 2020 Ligation funders would be forced to return a minimum of 70 per cent of proceeds from a case to class action participants, under reforms proposed by government MPs. The Morrison government’s crackdown on litigation funders this year...
Ben Packham - The Australian - 22 December 2020 Victorian Liberal senator James Paterson has emerged as the frontrunner to replace Andrew Hastie as chairman of the parliament's powerful intelligence and security committee. Senator Paterson is understood to have the support of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton...
Ronald Mizen - Australian Financial Review - Tuesday 22 December 2020 A government plan to give company directors a permanent reprieve on continuous disclosure obligations has been given a tick of approval by a parliamentary committee investigating litigation funders. The committee's final report released on Monday was...
Lisa Visentin - The Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday 22 December 2020 Australia's elite research universities have warned that partnerships with Chinese institutions, including those which have led to world-leading research developments, could be jeopardised if the Morrison government fails to carefully calibrate foreign interference measures. The...
Adele Ferguson - Australian Financial Review - Monday 21 December 2020 This week, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will receive the findings of an investigation into Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman James Shipton's hefty taxadvice invoices paid for by taxpayers to KPMG. Frydenberg has also promised to overhaul...
Janet Albrechtsen - The Australian - Saturday 12 December 2020 Maybe Labor members still drink beer. But as Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews signalled a few months ago, these days Labor leaders go higher up the shelf. Indeed, when federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese made it clear...