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Labor pushes for stronger penalties for banks’ misconduct

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Today the Labor Canada Goose sale Party will introduce amendments in the Senate to overhaul a government bill, the Treasury Laws Amendment, which is designed to strengthen penalties Canada Goose Jackets in the corporate and financial sectors.

Labor will push for two key amendments, the first of which would increase jail time for the most serious cheap canada goose corporate crimes from 10 years in prison to 15.

Much of the dishonest conduct that dominated Commissioner Kenneth Hayne report such as fees for no service would fit into that category.

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uk canada goose Labor other amendment would double the government proposed cap on financial penalties for big businesses to $525 million. uk canada goose

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canada goose victoria parka outlet The opposition wants to increase that cap to 2.5 million penalty units, arguing canadian goose jacket the current legislation canada goose uk outlet would only serve to protect the largest companies from facing the same financial risk as other firms when they engage in misconduct. canada goose victoria parka outlet

canada goose outlet online uk royal commission has shown that https://www.londonbc.co.uk the big banks made hundreds of millions of dollars of profit from the fees for no service scandals, and the maximum cheap Canada Goose penalty of $200 million that the government has proposed is simply too low, said opposition financial services spokeswoman Clare O will increase the maximum civil penalty to $525 million to ensure that banks don profit from misconduct. what been exposed through the Royal Commission, Australians expect tough action on corporate crime, and Labor is delivering. O said parliament needed to canada goose clearance sale send a clear message to banks that they canada goose will face serious consequences for breaking the law. canada goose outlet online uk

Australians feel that if canada goose black friday sale they steal from a bank, they would go to jail, yet if the bank steals from them they get a bonus and a promotion. And we just can allow that to continue, she said.

of the offences Labor is proposing to increase to a 15 year maximum sentence is the very same offence that Commissioner Hayne has recommended that the big banks be charged with for ripping off consumers through the fees for no service scandal. is, of course, a political aspect to this as well.

Labor has been hammering the government this week after frontbencher Christopher Pyne admitted it would not legislate in response to the royal commission until after the election, which is due in May.

canada goose uk customer service change the laws around financial services and respond to the banking royal commission in the way that we wish to will take about 40 different pieces of legislation, Mr Pyne said. canada goose uk customer service

trying to do that in a rushed job to fulfil a political stunt that the Labor Party is trying to pull is no way to govern.

what we tried to do in the last five years, of course, is to be sensible and methodical about the way we govern, and that what we done. says the delay is proof the government be trusted on banking policy.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is resisting pressure to schedule more parliamentary sitting weeks before the election to deal with the royal commission findings.

Labor needs the crossbenchers support to win a vote on the floor canada goose store of the House and force the government to schedule more time. But one of those crossbenchers, Bob Katter, has indicated uk canada goose outlet he will not support the move.

Following yesterday historic defeat on asylum seeker legislation, when Mr Morrison saw his own government bill amended by Labor and the crossbench against his wishes, he now faces a perilous dilemma in the Senate.

canada goose outlet in chicago Does the government acquiesce, support Labor amendments and implicitly agree that its own proposed penalties for banks are too weak? Or does it resist the move, and risk another embarrassing defeat canada goose outlet in chicago.