Your afternoon Briefing: ASIC reveals it has almost 40 investigations under way

Good afternoon, readers. ASIC reveals tougher approach after banking royal commission and Julia Banks fires shot at Greg Hunt from the crossbench.

Good afternoon, readers. ASIC has revealed a tougher approach after the banking royal commission and Julia Banks takes a shot at Greg Hunt from the crossbench.

Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman James Shipton leaves the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry in Sydney, Friday, November 23, 2018. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

ASIC gets tough after Hayne pain

Corporate watchdog ASIC has responded to its bank inquiry bruising, saying it now has almost 40 investigations under way.

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Newly Independent MP Julia Banks reacts during House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, November 27, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Banks fires shot from crossbench

Julia Banks has taken aim at Health Minister Greg Hunt with her first question as an independent. Meanwhile, in other political news, Wayne Swan used his farewell speech to wish the Morrison government “a sound defeat” and slam “race-based dog-whistle politics”.

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Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses delegates on the final day of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, north west England on September 26, 2018. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

‘The biggest loser is Corbyn’

The shabby dross of eccentric celebrity largely shielded Jeremy Corbyn from scrutiny, writes Greg Sheridan. Now the public is, belatedly, becoming alarmed.

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DNA in nails of murdered lawyer

Prosecutors have outlined their case against the man accused of the Claremont serial killings, telling a court of his “abnormal” sexual interests.

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Jordan Peterson will appear on Q&A next week.

Q&A, we have a problem

Q&A doesn’t like to think of itself as biased, but look what happened when Jordan Peterson was announced as a guest, writes Caroline Overington.