This article examines a preliminary review and the limited evidence of over-regulation in Australian financial services. The 1997 Wallis Report and the CLERP 6 paper, resulted in the amendments to Ch 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) by the Financial Services Reform Act. Nearly a decade later...

The Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth) (CATSI Act) enables indigenous Australians to run their businesses and associations in the form of indigenous corporations. According to the Explanatory Memorandum to the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)...

Indigenous Australians, like their counterparts around the world, have not consistently had their rights acknowledged and upheld since the earliest days of Western colonisation. From the concept of Terra Nullius to the forcible removal of indigenous children from their families, indigenous...

Enforceable undertaking is one of the many sanctions that are available to regulators. It is widely used in the regulatory community for it allows the regulators to reach plausible solutions to alleged offences without spending the resources of their agencies or the resources of the courts. The...