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National Affairs Confessions of a Reserve Bank board member John Edwards 16 November 2021 An inquiry into the bank’s past decade might yield interesting results, but it misses Australia’s real challenge National Affairs Banking their winnings Helen Bird 27 August 2021 Despite the early fanfare, the government has backed down on key recommendations of the banking royal commission in the face of industry lobbying National Affairs Trouble at the Bank Adam Triggs 1 March 2021 With hundreds of thousands still unemployed, the Reserve Bank is under growing pressure to do more National Affairs Quantitative easing: new or old? Selwyn Cornish 27 June 2019 Some commentators want the Reserve Bank to try something new and radical. But how different would “quantitative easing” really be?

National Affairs The emperors’ old clothes Michael Gill 11 May 2018 The banking royal commission has exposed senior management, boards and regulators to unprecedented scrutiny — and the problems don’t end with the finance sector National Affairs Bonfire of the bankers Milind Sathye 23 April 2018 The government is toughening penalties at last, but the regulators can do much more, says a former central banker Essays & Reportage Keynesians of the first hour Alex Millmow 6 December 2017 Called on the eve of a revolution in economic thinking, the 1936–37 banking royal commission mattered in ways that the latest one probably won’t National Affairs The Abbott government’s war on transparency Rodney Tiffen 5 June 2014 There’s a worrying thread running through decisionmaking in Canberra, writes Rodney Tiffen