Joye: Banking royal commission a waste of money

Friday 2 September 2016

The AFR’s Chris Joye has penned a strongly worded piece today opposing a banking Royal Commission:

This proposed royal commission is an exercise in pure political populism from a party that relentlessly opposed any investigation into the banks while it was in power between 2009 and 2013.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.