White Collar Crime
March 2017 - Report tabled in Parliament -`Lifting the fear and suppressing the greed’: Penalties for white-collar crime and corporate and financial misconduct in Australia
March 2016 - Submission by HNAB to Senate Inquiry - PENALTIES NEEDED FOR CORPORATE AND WHITE COLLAR CRIME
Understanding the trauma of white collar crime.
Link to Senate Inquiry here - The HNAB Action Group submission is number 41.
Managed Investment Schemes
November 2016 - Australian Government Response to Bitter Harvest Report
March 2016 - Final Report issued - Agribusiness MIS Bitter Harvest
November 2014 - Senate Economics Committee Hansard (transcript) of Wednesday's Hearing - click this link
Our Chairperson's full submission speech to the Hearing - click this link
Document outlining TC Fraud and Misconduct and the role of ANZ - click this link
Link to Senate Inquiry here - the HNAB Action Group submission is number 193 with many submissions listed being from our group members.
Melbourne Town Hall on 12th November, 2014.
The performance of ASIC
This link will take you to over 470 submissions received by the Economics Committee after Senator John Williams called for a formal enquiry. Most of the submissions are in reference to Low Doc Loans with many also referring to loss of homes, superannuation funds, rogue financial advisers, personal health issues etc.
Article - Scrutinising ASIC - a watchdog or a dog with no teeth?
Articles referencing the Senate Enquiry
Revealing Look at ASIC's Practices
26/06/2014 - Inquiry into the Performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (email received by HNAB from the Senate Economics Committee) -
I am writing to advise you that on 26 June 2014 the final report into the Performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission was tabled in the Senate chamber.The report is available on the Committee's website or click here.
The tabling of the report represents the end of the Committee's inquiry. On behalf of the Committee, thank you for your participation in this inquiry.
27/08/2014 - House Debate - Streamlining of FoFA - Kelvin Thomson, Member for Wills
Consumer Protection Inquiry - in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Sector
Submission number 124 - HNAB-AG has now been uploaded with responses from KordaMentha, ANZ, Peter Holt and John Berrill
June 2017 - Independent Australia "More of the same", part 1 by Dr Evan Jones.
Dr Evan Jones is a retired political economist. Read Dr Jones' submission (#87) to the Senate Inquiry here.
A two-part investigation; read Part 2 here.
Scrutiny of Financial Advice
Link to Senate Inquiry here
Link to submissions here. The HNAB Action Group submission is number 128 made to the 44th Parliament.