Roy Masters reports. The way to beat the banks, writes Sherrill Nixon, may be simply to do away with them - and technology points the way. People power plugs the gap When Peter Sussman heard of plans to set up a community bank in Clovelly, he knew he could help. After all, he'd been a manager of the local Commonwealth Bank. We may hate them, but we keep coming back for more Despite signs of increased competition in selected services and greater scrutiny by regulators, Australia's big banks have lately tightened their stranglehold on Australia's financial services.
Australian banks are profitable but inefficient.
It is not sustainable, writes Khaldoun Hajaj. An ABC board with a non-Labor majority would not be a threat to its independence, writes Padraic P. McGuinness. Here is a plan, writes Wayne Hall, that would spare AIDS and cancer patients pain without them having to resort to the black market. The state of Australian music theatre is nothing to sing about, writes Clem Gorman. FILM Rush's Marquis de Sade might whip the lot for an Oscar Four months and three weeks from now, on March 25 at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium before a global audience of a billion people, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will spare no pomp in dispensing dozens of golden Oscar statuettes.