Shelf Location |
332.1 FER |
Author |
Ferguson, Adele (Adele Werdell) |
Title |
Banking bad / Adele Ferguson. |
Cover title |
Banking bad : whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's fight for the truth |
Publication Details |
Sydney, N.S.W. : ABC Books, 2019. |
Description |
405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
"Adele Ferguson - the reporter who broke the stories that lead to a Royal Commission"--Cover. |
Against all the odds, Australia held a royal commission into the banking and financial services industries. Its revelations rocked the nation. Even defenders of the banks were blindsided. Few people were more instrumental in bringing about the commission than journalist Adele Ferguson. Through her exposes in print and on television, she pursued the truth about funds mismanagement, fraud, lack of probity, and the hard-sell culture that took over the finance industry after deregulation in the 1980s. But it wasn't just light-touch regulators and crooked bankers growing fat on bonuses she put under the spotlight. It was also their victims - men and women who had lost everything, and had no recourse when they discovered empty accounts, egregious fees, forged documents and broken promises. Now in Banking Bad, Ferguson tells the full story of the power imbalance, toxic culture and cover-ups. She describes the long fight for justice by whistleblowers, victims and political mavericks, and she looks at the outcomes of the royal commission - the falls from grace, the damaging hubris, the scathing assessment of the regulators, and the colossal compensation bill - an estimated |
Subject |
Ferguson, Adele(Adele Werdell) |
Australia. -- Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry |
Women journalists -- Australia -- Biography |
White collar crime investigation -- Australia |
Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- Australia |
Banks and banking -- Corrupt practices -- Australia |
Financial services industry -- Australia -- History |
Banks and banking -- Australia -- History |
Australia -- Politics and government -- History |
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