As background to ASIC shows, the regulator has never been highly regardd since its creation. This is direct contrast to the Howard's Government's trumpeting of its success to overseas countries.
It is not without reason that investors in Westpoint, Fincorp, ACR - and a myriad of smaller companies - demand a Royal Commission into ASIC performance.
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In the following list of communications addressed to ASIC, you will note ASIC did not bother to even acknowledge receipt of documents. I don't take the matter as a personal affront as ASIC didn't bother to answer a communication to the Liquidator of Westpoint Corporation for over six weeks. For some strange reason ASIC has elevated itself to a God-like status where it was not accountable to the mere mortals it is supposed to protect.
2002_05_ASIC_Senate_Submission
2006_06_03_letter to EmuInvestors As directed by Court ASIC lwrote to Emu
& Bayshore investors.
2006_01_05_MacAulay_Lucy Not answered.
2006_07_13_MacAulay_Lucy Not answered.
2006_08_08_MacAulay_Lucy Not answered.
2006_08_21_How_to_complain Not answered.
2006/02/23_Pre Meeting What happened before the meeting.
2006/02_23_Meeting Agenda Totally inappropriate for the audience.
2006/02/23_Meeting_ASIC_Handout A document pushing investors towards FICS.
2006/02/23_Meeting_ASIC_Version ASIC's version is far different from my own.
2006/02/23_Meeting My_Version My version is somewhat different to that of ASIC.
2006/02/23_Meeting Questions ASIC never answered the questions we left them.
2006_07_13_MacAulay Lucy Not answered. Not surprising - ASIC never answers communications.
2006_08_08_MacAulay_Lucy Not answered
2007_07_05_Meeting_Report Minutes as WIG members understood them.
2007_07_05_Questions_for_ASIC ASIC agreed to formally answer these questions by next meeting. The questions were never answered.
2007_07_05_Possible_ASIC_ Solutions Possible integrated solution to ASIC problems.
2007_07_05_Lucy_contradiction Jeff Lucy contradicts himself in Hansard
2007_09_03_Meeting_Report Minutes as understood by WIG
2007_11_08_MR_07_291 Unbelievable! Is this just a stall because the election is close? See 2007_11_08_Meeting_Report
2007_11_08_Meeting_Report I still don't believe it!
2008_01_11_Redfern_MacAulay Is this a valid explanation of ASIC's non-prosecution of Karen Carey?
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