Print Financial planners are more often kicked than heaped with bouquets in the Federal Parliament and so when politicians come along prepared to listen to financial planners and challenge the positions and decisions of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission then they are much to be treasured. And in recent years financial planners found some parliamentarians prepared, if not to champion their cause, then to at least not condemn them out of hand to question why financial planners were having to deal with presumed guilt even when events were perpetrated by accountants, product manufacturers or lawyers. And among the parliamentarians to have given financial planners are fair hearing were the Liberal Member for the Sydney Northern Beaches seat of Mackellar, Jason Falinski, Queensland Liberal backbencher and former financial adviser, Bert Van Manen, and, of course, the somewhat pugnacious Queensland Senator, Amanda Stoker.