The three-page script is described as a "light-hearted dialogue" between the concerned parents of the Corporations Act, who chastise the adolescent document for getting fat, hiding legislative documents under the bed and using obscure definitions like "simple corporate bonds depository nominee".
Professor Elise Bant
February 19, 2021
It can’t just be assumed that corporate failures like those at Crown are failures in leadership. Source: Getty.
In the aftermath of Patricia Bergin SC’s damning report into Crown Resort Ltd and the corporation subsequently being found unsuitable to hold Sydney’s second casino licence, attention has rightly been focussed on those at its helm.
Bergin’s analysis suggests that many of those who would normally be regarded as the company’s “directing mind and will” have failed in basic ethical and legal respects and some important heads have rolled.
Meanwhile, a similar story has been playing out at Collingwood Football Club.
Hannah Clarke was murdered a year ago. Criminalising coercive control is only one part of the response that s needed to tackle domestic abuse
By a victim survivor of domestic abuse
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I m just another woman with a family violence story.
Telling it will not change the fact more women will be murdered in Australia in 2021, but as the momentum to criminalise coercive control grows, it s time to add my voice to the chorus.
It s time I told my story.
What is coercive control?
Behaviours include:
Isolating them from family and friends
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg moves to permanently water down ASX continuous disclosure rules
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Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was quizzed about the changes at a Parliament House press conference.
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Much of the news you see reported in the financial press comes from company announcements to the stock exchange.
Key points:
The government will move legislation to permanently relax disclosure obligations on ASX-listed companies and their directors
Experts say the changes will make it harder to run shareholder class actions and may lead to an increase in insider trading
Labor says it will try and convince Senate cross-benchers to join it in opposing the change
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Crown, Collingwood and corporate conscience
Professor Elise Bant, UWA Law School examines the complex and ineffectual laws that currently allow corporations committing commercial fraud to evade justice.
In the aftermath of Patricia Bergin SC’s damning report into Crown Resort Ltd and the corporation subsequently being found unsuitable to hold Sydney’s second casino licence, attention has rightly been focused on those at its helm.
Bergin’s analysis suggests that many of those who would normally be regarded as the company’s ‘directing mind and will’ have failed in basic ethical and legal respects and some important heads have rolled.