Literally tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of financial victims in Australia last week will have heard a Senate inquiry call for the abolition of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and wondered:
Under pressure from not one but two Senate inquiries into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the corporate regulator has finally taken action against the directors of the Sterling First rent-for-life scam.
The Sterling First fiasco proves the importance of the current Senate inquiry into ASIC, which is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to fix the pathetic regulator so it actually polices financial crime.
Senator Andrew Bragg established his Senate Economics References Committee inquiry into ASIC investigation and enforcement last October, seizing on the revelations of the Adams Report.
On Friday 24 March, Senators on the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee will gather in Canberra to hold the first public hearing into Project Iron Boomerang—one of the largest infrastructure projects ever pr
The deadline for submissions to the Senate’s ASIC inquiry has been extended to 28 February—submit your experience of ASIC failing to police financial predators.