If you believe the conservative line, Australia’s banks are not only too big to fail but too fragile to be openly investigated.
The argument goes like this: yes, the financial sector has behaved very badly, even criminally; but the establishment of a royal commission to examine the seemingly endless stream of scandals could lead to a devastating loss of confidence. [Mike Seccombe in The Saturday Paper, 16 April 2016]
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