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Three billion per year. How the financial system rips us off

  • Written by Robert Drake, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University
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The Royal Commission into Financial Services is getting wins.

On Monday, ahead of an appearance by a Baptist minister whose adult son with Down Syndrome and a speech impediment had been sold more than A$10,000 of life insurance over the phone, Freedom Insurance announced...

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