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The Pressure on the Royal Commission
Between 2013 and 2017, when the Royal Commission was announced, take us through that four-year period. What were some of the other stories you exposed? And what was some of the pressure that was brought to bear on you? So 2013 was the Commonwealth Financial Planning scandal. That triggered a Senate inquiry. You heard a lot of bad stuff about the regulator, not doing its job. It took 16 months before it acted. When it did, it really didn't do very much. In 2016, which was Dr Ben Co, who was a whistleblower at Cominshore. He'd gone internally to the bank and said this is what's going on in the life insurance division. There are