Rt Rev Kay Goldsworthy will lead the West Australian division, replacing Roger Herft who stood down from the top job after admitting he let down survivors of child sexual abuse during
Royal Commission hearings last year.
In its first response to the bruising fortnight of
royal commission hearings, which ended a week ago, into misconduct in its financial advice division AMP said that «irrespective of the criticism surrounding its production» the Clayton Utz report was «an important and powerful catalyst» for its response to the misconduct uncovered.
Earlier this month
the royal commission heard that while law firm Clayton Utz was instructed that the «investigation will be entirely independent of the business», the report had been through 25 drafts during its preparation in late 2017, and was the subject of 700 emails between AMP and the law firm.
In his opening address at
the Royal Commission hearing in Darwin on Tuesday, Counsel Assisting Peter Callaghan asked:
Not exact matches
A Westpac planner who scored badly in internal audits was not subject to consequences, the Hayne
royal commission has
heard.
A group of planners from Count Financial were charging customers for advice fees after they had died, the
royal commission has
heard.
Commonwealth Bank's provision of the products will be examined in detail by the Hayne
royal commission as early as next week at public
hearings which begin in Melbourne on Tuesday, March 13.
Appalled by what you've
heard at the
royal commission?
I
heard recently at the Australian
Royal Commission into sexual abuse of children in institutions that Brian Houston was so traumatized by learning of his father's crimes he developed PTSD.
Do we
hear them establishing a
royal commission to get to the bottom of the issues relating to health or cost benefit of wind farms such as urgently recommended by a Senate investigation only a few years ago?
During the public
hearings on the
Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism in 1965, Horn, rather than the NIC's Pelletier, submitted a brief, expressing concern for Aboriginal rights in a sovereign Québec.
The media spotlight was firmly in Darwin this past fortnight, as the
Royal Commission into the Child Protection and Youth Detention Systems of the Northern Territory began its
hearings.
Ahead of the
hearing, the Human Rights Law Centre, Amnesty International and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services called on the Federal and Northern Territory Governments to take immediate action to protect young people currently in detention and not wait for the
Royal Commission's findings to ensure their safety.
Dudgeon sees similarities with the work of ATSISPEP and the investigation being undertaken by the
Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, which resumes public
hearings next month.
As the Northern Territory
Royal Commission has
heard, it's time it got done.
As you've no doubt
heard in the media, Dylan Voller, who was filmed in a restraint chair wearing a spit hood, as well as being tear - gassed, gave evidence this week to the
Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.
Once in the child protection system we
heard of inappropriate placements, dislocation from community and culture and a lack of support or follow
Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory through to address the trauma so many children had suffered in their young lives.
The
Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory [14] has
heard appalling evidence of neglect and abuse of youth detainees.