Introduction

Adele Ferguson is an award-winning investigative journalist. He exposed fraud and misconduct in the Australian financial services sector. Adele's dogged efforts ultimately resulted in a royal commission into misconduct in the banking superannuation and financial services industry. In this conversation, we discuss banking scandals, particularly in relation to Australia's big four, CBA, NAB, Westpac and ANZ. We also discuss one of the informal impacts of the royal commission, which has been the fall in house prices in Australia. And if in hindsight the royal commission really was the event that finally pricked the Australian property bubble, then Adele may well be remembered as one of the instrumental individuals in doing just that.