Federal policy

Banking and Financial Consumer Protection

  • Establish a Royal Commission into banking misconduct post-FSRC.
  • Enforce transparency in mortgage contracts and lending practices.
  • Regulate receivers and administrators to protect property owners and SMEs.
  • Mandate project accountability for all major finance and insurance decisions.
  • Reform AFCA and ASIC to strengthen accountability, procedural fairness, transparent decision-maker identification and independent review, while supporting complementary state-level reforms to EWOV.
  • Review the independence, funding and effectiveness of AFCA, ASIC, APRA and other national financial regulators and complaint bodies.
  • Propose an Independent Oversight Commission to audit national regulators and recommend reforms to enforcement, complaint handling and appeal rights.
  • Provide legal assistance under the Public Justice Equality Scheme where an eligible person or small business faces institutional financial litigation.

More policies

Consumer Protection and Financial Justice

Reform the accountability of Victorian regulators and EWOV, introduce independent routes to challenge their decisions and review abusive debt enforcement in state courts.

Civil Liberties and Judicial Fairness

Introduce the Equality of Arms Principle, extend the proposed Public Justice Equality Scheme, support self-represented litigants and protect freedom of expression and religion.

Government Integrity and Electoral Reform

Introduce mandatory donation and lobbying disclosure, enforce penalties for misleading parliament, investigate lawful methods for recalling federal MPs and audit major failures.

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