2005-2009

2009

ASIC loses litigation against Fortescue Metals Group

  1. "Call for reform of complex litigation", The Sydney Morning Herald, Business section, 26 December 2009, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC and complex corporate litigation

  1. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 24 December 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Regulator on notice after loss", The West Australian, 24 December 2009, page 30, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC TV, The 7pm News Program (Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Darwin and Hobart) 23 December 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney); ABC Radio 612 (Brisbane); ABC Radio 720 (Perth); ABC Darwin, various news programs, 23 and 24 December 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 23 December 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC appeals the judgments in One.Tel and AWB

  1. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 17 December 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Regulation of stock lending

  1. "Super funds can still lend shares, but rules tightened", The Australian, 15 December 2009, page 19, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Auditor of Centro Properties sues its directors

  1. "Auditor flags lawsuits against Centro directors", The Australian Financial Review, 12 December 2009, page 18, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC loses application to bring second legal claim for breach of duty by former AWB managing director

  1. ABC Radio National, The Breakfast Program, 10 December 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 9 December 2009, interview withProfessor Ian Ramsay

Accountability of institutional investors

  1. "Rise of the institutions", Business Review Weekly, 26 November 2009, page 41, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC loses case alleging breach of director's duties by former One.Tel executives Jodie Rich and Mark Silbermann

  1. ABC TV, The Inside Business Program, 22 November 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "One.Tel a bitter lesson", The Herald Sun, 21 November 2009, page 76, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "ASIC sensation- Lessons to be learned from One.Telling loss", The Daily Telegraph, 21 November 2009, page 113, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; "Rich ruling hands ASIC a legal lesson", The Adelaide Advertiser, 21 November 2009, page 82, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "ASIC already doing it smarter", The Sydney Morning Herald, Business section, 20 November 2009, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Litigators lash ASIC over handling of One.Tel case", The Age, Business section, 20 November 2009, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; "ASIC cops spray from legal minds", The West Australian, 20 November 2009, page 60, interview with Professor Ramsay
  4. Radio 94.7 (Geelong), The Money Program, 20 November 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "Business judgment rule comes to aid of the parties", The Australian Financial Review, 19 November 2009, page 60, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. ABC TV2, The News Breakfast Program, 19 November 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 18 November 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 18 November 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Ministerial Council for Corporations announcement regarding derivative liability of directors for corporate fault

  1. "Directors duties turn national", The Australian Financial Review, 7 November 2009, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC investigation of Offset Alpine

  1. ASIC going cold on Offset chase", The Australian, 2 November 2009, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Lessons from the James Hardie litigation

  1. "Hardie lessons", Company Director, November 2009, page 30, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Governance in schools

  1. "Call to schools: open your books", The Age, 26 October 2009, page 13, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Reform proposals regarding executive remuneration

  1. "Steam still rising over execs' pay", The Australian, 24 October 2009, page 26, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Australian government approves Chinese takeover of Felix Resources

  1. "China gets nod for Felix", The West Australian, 24 October 2009, page 86, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Australia approves Chinese takeover of Felix Resources", Reuters, 23 October 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC sues directors of Centro for breach of duty in relation to misleading financial reports

  1. "ASIC's Centro case rattles boards", The Australian Financial Review, 24 October 2009, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Minor changes, major consequences", The Australian, 24 October 2009, page 32, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Centro auditor may be next in line after ASIC's move against directors", The Age, Business section, 23 October 2009, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; "Executives face big fines in ASIC suit", The Sydney Morning Herald, Business section, 23 October 2009, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "Directors on notice as ASIC files case", The Australian, 22 October 2009, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "Regulator sues former Centro board over accounts", The Australian Financial Review, 22 October 2009, page 53, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. "Case strikes terror in hearts of those responsible", The Australian Financial Review, 22 October 2009, page 52, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Independence of financial intermediaries

  1. "Gatekeeper neutrality is vital", The Australian Financial Review, 13 October 2009, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Government issues draft regulations on short selling disclosure

  1. "Short-selling rules a long time coming", The Australian, 5 October 2009, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Regulating share sale welcomed", The Herald Sun, 3 October 2009, page 76, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Increases in executive remuneration at companies with falling share prices

  1. "Execs win rises as share prices fall", The West Australian, 3 October 2009, page 16, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Anti-money laundering legislation and legal professional privilege

  1. "Invoking privilege on money laundering", The Australian, 2 October 2009, page 23, interview with Associate Professor Christine Parker

Company executives hedging their share based incentive payments

  1. "Good as gold", The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 September 2009, Business section, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "The hedging option: insurance or infidelity", The Age, Business section, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Advantages of studying for a masters degree in law

  1. "Mastering the law", Lawyers Weekly, 25 September 2009, page 18, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Division in the board of directors of Fairfax Media

  1. "Fairfax board urged to move quickly to a resolution", The Australian Financial Review, 19 September 2009, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposed enhanced powers for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission

  1. "ASIC plans call for 'super-regulator'", The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 2009, Business section, page 19, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Financial system reform

  1. "Australia escapes, but the window for reform is closing fast", The Age, Business section, 15 September 2009, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Regulation in Australia and the global financial crisis

  1. "Walking the regulatory tightrope", Voice, 14 September 2009, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Boards of directors and external advisors

  1. "Some advice about advisers", Company Director, September 2009, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Ernst & Young settles Sons of Gwalia litigation for $125 million

  1. "Auditors on alert as E&Y agrees to $125m payout", The West Australian, 5 September 2009, page 69, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Bankruptcy in Australia – the law and the evidence

  1. ABC Radio National, The Australia Talks Program, 31 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Government proposes changes to the Bankruptcy Act

  1. ABC TV, The 7pm News (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin), 25 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Government announcement that supervision of trading on financial markets, including ASX, will be shifted from the market operators to ASIC

  1. ABC TV2, The News Breakfast Program, 25 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Power to ASIC", The Herald Sun, 25 August 2009, page 29, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "ASIC to regulate market", The Courier Mail, 25 August 2009, page 28, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "ASIC set to control all ASX trade", The Adelaide Advertiser, 25 August 2009, page 39, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "ASIC wins day as ASX comes to heel", The Northern Territory News, 25 August 2009, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. ABC TV, The 7pm News (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin), 25 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. ABC TV, The Lateline Business Program, 25 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 25 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. AAP, "Corporate law enforcer to take on market supervisory role", 24 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 24 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. ABC Radio National, The World at Noon Program, 24 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  12. ABC TV, The Midday Report Program, 24 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney); ABC Radio 891 (Adelaide); ABC Radio 720 (Perth), various news programs, 24 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Penalties imposed on former James Hardie directors and executives for breach of their duties

  1. ABC News Radio, Various News Programs, 21 August, 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC TV2, The News Breakfast Program, 21 August, 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Fines and bans for Hardie directors", The Australian Financial Review, 21 August 2009, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 20 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. ABC TV, The Midday Report Program, 20 August 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Regulation of insider trading

  1. "The inside story", The Australian Financial Review, 15 August 2009, page 29, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Commissions for financial planners

  1. "Financial planners escape again", The Australian Financial Review, 1 August 2009, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Banks, the financial crisis and competition

  1. "Anti-trust the system", Insto - Australian Financial Markets Magazine, June/July 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee report on market integrity

  1. SKY TV, The Business Report Program, 31 July 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposed law reform regarding access to share registers

  1. "Charity stops at home for business", The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 July 2009, Business section, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Charities home in on share registers", The Age, 31 July 2009, Business section, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Penalty hearing in the James Hardie litigation

  1. Radio 2GB (Sydney), The Business Program, 27 July 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Referees to stand up for Hardie team", The Australian Financial Review, 25 July 2009, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Costs associated with new business regulation

  1. "Business counts cost of new laws", The Australian Financial Review, 24 July 2009, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Legal risks associated with doing business overseas

  1. "It's risky business overseas", The Herald Sun, 21 July 2009, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Aussies warned of overseas risks", The Courier Mail, 21 July 2009, page 54, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Increasing debt of Australian households and its consequences

  1. "The debt trap", The Sunday Age, 19 July 2009, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Issue arising from the toll road builder Brisconnections events

  1. "Blood on the tracks", Business Review Weekly, 16 July 2009, page 26, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Cross-claim by PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Centro Properties litigation

  1. "Auditor fights back with counter-attack", The Australian Financial Review, 15 July 2009, page 56, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Executive remuneration in US financial firms

  1. "Back on board the gravy train", The Herald Sun, 11 July 2009, page 75, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Arrest of Rio Tinto executive in China

  1. "Arrest bends the rules", The Herald Sun, 11 July 2009, page 32, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Red alert sounds on Rio spy claims", The Herald Sun, 10 July 2009, page 41, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporate crime in Australia and the US

  1. "Quick justice", The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 July 2009, Business section, page 7, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Going soft and slow on big failures", The Age, 6 July 2009, Business section, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ANZ Bank and its problems with securities lending

  1. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 26 June 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

James Hardie Industries announces plan to move from the Netherlands to Ireland

  1. SKY TV, The Business Report Program, 24 June 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. Radio 2GB (Sydney), The Business Program, 24 June 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASX survey shows smaller proportion of the population owning shares of listed companies

  1. "Share market turmoil drives investors away", The Age online, 23 June 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Australian Conservation Foundation complaint to the ACCC regarding corporate disclosures about the proposed emission trading regime

  1. "Company boards feel rising heat of climate change litigation", The Age, 20 June 2009, Business section, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Climate changes for directors", The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June 2009, Business section, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Changes to the Victorian Supreme Court to improve resolution of commercial disputes

  1. "State ups ante for court crown", The Australian Financial Review, 19 June 2009, page 44, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Commonwealth Bank acknowledges wrongdoing in relation to Storm Financial

  1. ABC TV, The Lateline Business Program, 18 June 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also ABC2 TV, The Business Today Program, 19 June 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

The global financial crisis and challenges for directors

  1. "Directors under fire", Business Review Weekly, 18 June 2009, page 45, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposed reform of the Bankruptcy Act

  1. "Bankruptcy move found wanting", The Australian Financial Review, 15 June 2009, page 52, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Investor protection in managed investment schemes

  1. "Cracks in Timbercorp shine light on MIS investor protection", The Age, 8 June 2009, Business section, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Timbercorp collapse turns focus on oversight of agribusiness plans", The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 June 2009, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Regulation of short selling

  1. SKY TV, The Sunday Business Week Program, 31 May 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposed changes to the taxation arrangements for employee share ownership plans

  1. "Upfront shares tax a step back", The Australian, 27 May 2009, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC lifts ban on short selling of financial stocks

  1. SKY TV, The Business Report Program, 25 May 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Efforts to save biotech company Ventracor

  1. ABC TV, The Inside Business Program, 24 May 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Problems caused by partly paid shares for retail investors

  1. "Call for ban", The Age, Business section, 20 May 2009, page 4, interview with Associate Professor Cally Jordan

Government releases draft legislation on termination payments for directors and senior executives

  1. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne) and ABC Radio 936 (Hobart), various news programs, 5 May 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Telstra found to breach access agreement with Optus by misusing confidential information

  1. "Broadband details emerge", The Herald Sun, 2 May 2009, page 80, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Commonwealth Bank capital raising and questions about the Bank's disclosure of loan impairments

  1. "CBA may be the death knell for a soft sounding ", The Australian Financial Review, 29 April 2009, Investment Banking supplement, page S10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Increasing mortgage foreclosures

  1. "More lose homes as job losses bite", The Age, 28 April 2009, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Challenges for investors in stapled securities such as Brisconnections

  1. "Disconnected: A road to ruin",The Sunday Age, 26 April 2009, Investor section, page 12, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

James Hardie directors found to have breached their duties

  1. "Directors on notice", The Herald Sun, 25 April 2009, page 83, interview with John Howe; also "Hardie case a 'wake-up call'", The Courier Mail, 25 April 2009, page 71, interview with John Howe

Commonwealth government review of directors' liability laws

  1. "States urged to follow suit with audit", The Australian Financial Review, 21 April 2009, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Legal action against banks

  1. Channel 7 TV, The Today Tonight Program, 20 April 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Capital raisings by Australian companies

  1. "The capital club", The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2009, Business section, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Rising power of the those in the club", The Age, 18 April 2009, Business section, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Privatisations and the rights of investors

  1. "Telstra story spells out the risks", The Australian Financial Review, 14 April 2009, page 16, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Class action against the banks for not passing on interest rate cuts

  1. Channel 7 TV, The Today Tonight Program, 13 April 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Debate on executive remuneration

  1. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Saturday Morning Program, 11 April 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

G20 leaders' statement on tax havens

  1. ABC Radio Australia, The Pacific Beat Program, 6 April 2009, interview with Professor Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 4 April 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Changes to the Financial Stability Forum

  1. "Financial watchdog gets longer teeth", The Age, 4 April 2009, Business section, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

G20 leaders' statement regarding financial regulation and executive remuneration

  1. ABC TV, The 7pm News (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart), 3 April 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Centre for Corporate Law Research Report on personal insolvency trends in Australia

  1. "Bankruptcies up 260% in two decades", Mortgage Business, April 2009, page 6
  2. "Insolvency and bankruptcy boom will continue into 2010", Australasian Legal Business, Vol 7 No 4, April 2009, page 17
  3. "Insolvency surge just tip of the iceberg", The Australian Financial Review, 6 April 2009, page 3
  4. "Personal insolvency on the rise", Lawyers Weekly, 3 April 2009, page 4
  5. "Going to the wall for $2K", The Northern Territory News, 30 March 2009, page 28
  6. "Be prepared – it pays", The Sun Herald, Investor section, 29 March 2009, page 4; also in the Sunday Age, Investor section, 29 March 2009, page 4
  7. "Consumers juggle bills as banks send in the debt collectors", The Sunday Age, 29 March 2009, page 22
  8. Radio 2UE (Sydney), The Weekend Program, 28 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. Radio 3AW (Melbourne), The News Program, 28 March 2009
  10. "Bankruptcies rising", The Canberra Times, 28 March 2009, page 2
  11. "Hard Times hit middle income tier", The Daily Telegraph, 28 March 2009, page 117
  12. "Going bust for peanuts", The Hobart Mercury, 28 March 2009, page 37
  13. "Bankruptcy rates up for small debt", Sky News online, 28 March 2009
  14. "Middle-income bankrupts up", The Border Mail, 28 March 2009, page 73
  15. "Bankruptcy rates on rise due to credit", The Sunraysia Daily, 28 March 2009, page 23
  16. "Credit crunch goes up-market", The Australian online – Smart Investor Blog, 27 March 2009
  17. "Bankruptcies rates sour over small debt", AAP, 27 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  18. ABC Radio National, The Life Matters Program, 26 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  19. ABC Radio 1233 (Newcastle), The Midday Program, 26 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  20. ABC Radio 666 (Canberra), The Drive Program, 25 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  21. ABC News Radio, The Morning Program, 25 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  22. Radio 2SM (Sydney), News Program, 25 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  23. "Surge in personal insolvencies before credit crisis", The Australian, 25 March 2009, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  24. "More, and richer, people filing for bankruptcy" The Age, 25 March 2009, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  25. "Surge in bankruptcies as credit dries up for those living in the red", The Age, 25 March 2009, Business section, page 3
  26. "Big earners suffer as bankruptcy snowballs", The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 2009, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  27. "Maxed-out credit cards and nowhere to run", The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 2009, page 23
  28. "Debt levels swell as credit crisis deepens", The Canberra Times, 25 March 2009, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  29. "Credit the big bust driver", The Herald Sun, 25 March 2009, page 35, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  30. "Insolvency becomes a middle class malaise", The Courier Mail, 25 March 2009, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  31. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney); ABC Radio 891 (Adelaide); ABC Radio 936 (Hobart), various news programs, 24 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  32. ABC News Radio, various news programs, 24 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  33. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Drive Program, 24 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  34. "Insolvencies a growing middle class problem", The Australian online, 24 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  35. "Bankruptcy rates rise for middle class", Sydney Morning Herald online, 24 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also The Age online, 24 March 2009
  36. "Insolvency rates jump almost three-fold since 1990", Business Spectator, 24 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  37. "Surge in personal bankruptcies", Smart Company, 24 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  38. "More personal insolvency across high incomes", Lawyers Weekly online, 24 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC bans broker for spreading misleading information

  1. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 23 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Government to restrict termination payments for executives

  1. "Swan to curb 'obscene' salaries", The Sydney Morning Herald online, 18 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also The Age online, 18 March 2009

Recession highlights growing financial fraud

  1. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 14 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Administrator appointed to Babcock & Brown

  1. "Bondholders seize Babcock & Brown, eye key assets", Reuters, 13 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC extends ban on short selling of shares of financial companies

  1. "Sold short", The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 2009, Business section, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Ban stays as world view is sold short", The Age, Business section, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Debate over short selling of securities

  1. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 3 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Debate over executive remuneration

  1. Radio 2UE, The Afternoon Program, 2 March 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Don't meddle with our pay: bosses tell MPs", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 March 2009, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Problems for toll road builder Brisconnections and its investors as investors are required to pay further amounts on their securities

  1. "Heading towards a pile-up on the road", The Australian Financial Review, 7 March 2009, page 13, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio National, The National Interest Program, 27 February 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

UBS to pay US$780 million over US tax charges

  1. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 20 February 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Requisition to hold meeting to wind up toll road builder Brisconnections

  1. "Toll road joy rider in the hole for $96m", The Australian Financial Review, 18 February 2009, page 20, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Debate about increased regulation as a response to the global financial crisis

  1. "Investors demand executive pay controls", The Australian Financial Review, 17 February 2009, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Bonuses to executives of financial institutions and government support of these institutions

  1. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 30 January 2009, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Increased regulation of margin lending

  1. "ASIC beefed up to crack down on margin loans", The West Australian, 19 January 2009, page 31, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Collapse of ABC Learning

  1. "Lessons to be learnt from ABC Learning's collapse", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 January 2009, page 24, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

2008

Commonwealth Bank capital raising results in questions about the Bank's disclosure of loan impairments

  1. "CBA blames broker as it bungles $2b bid for capital", The Canberra Times, 18 December 2008, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Behaviour goes close to the edge", The Australian Financial Review, 18 December 2008, page 46, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC News Radio, The Drive Program, 17 December 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 17 December 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Investors sue Citigroup broking subsidiary for trading losses

  1. "Investors sue Citigroup subsidiary over market losses", The Age, Business section, 13 December 2008, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASX study of directors trading during blackout periods

  1. "Blackout trading rises as policies breached: ASX", The West Australian, 12 December 2008, page 45, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

International moves for improved financial markets regulation

  1. "Short-selling rules create problems and critics", The Age, Business section, 26 November 2008, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ACCC publishes new merger guidelines

  1. "ACCC reveals thinking on mergers", The Herald Sun, 22 November 2008, page 95, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC lifts ban on short selling of non-financial securities

  1. ABC Radio National, The 8am News Program, 19 September 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), the 7am and 7.45am News Programs, 19 September 2008; ABC Radio 666 (Canberra), the 6am, 7am and 7.45am News Programs, 19 September 2008; ABC Radio 612 (Brisbane), the 6am, 7am and 7.45am News Programs, 19 September 2008; ABC Radio 891 (Adelaide), the 7am News Program, 19 September 2008; ABC Radio 720 (Perth), the 6.30am News Program, 19 September 2008; ABC Radio 936 (Hobart), the 7.45am News Program, 19 September 2008

Meeting of the G20 leaders to discuss the global financial crisis

  1. "20 leaders walk into a room…carrying the weight of the world", The Age, 14 November 2008, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Turnover of CEOs of major Australian companies and the financial crisis

  1. "Heads roll as crisis deepens", The Australian Financial Review, 12 November 2008, page 15, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC commences short selling case

  1. "Short-selling case will test the law", The Age, Business section, 8 November 2008, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Naked short-selling case will test the law", The West Australian, 8 November 2008, page 67, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Collapse of Allco Finance Group

  1. "CBA lent the largest chunk", The Australian Financial Review, 5 November 2008, page 60, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Federal government guarantee of banks and banks' investment products

  1. "When you can't bank on the bank", The Australian Financial Review, 1 November 2008, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Decision of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in Bell Group v Westpac

  1. "No clear winner – except the lawyers", The Australian Financial Review, 29 October 2008, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Government releases draft legislation with criminal penalties for cartels

  1. "Cartels face jail threat", The Herald Sun, 28 October 2009, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Governance issues when the CEO is ill

  1. "Quarantining that illness", Company Director, October 2008, page 39, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Increases scrutiny of auditors by ASIC

  1. "Hunted ASIC becomes hunter", The Australian Financial Review, 18 October 2008, page 8, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's comments regarding remuneration for executives of financial firms

  1. Channel 9 TV, A Current Affair Program, 16 October 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. Radio 2GB (Sydney), The Drive Program, 16 October 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. Channel 9 TV, The Today Show, 16 October 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "Greed is bad, says Rudd", The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 October 2008, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "Rudd war on bankers' salary deals", The Age, 16 October 2008, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. "Rudd hatches a plan to put the brake on bank executives' bulging bonuses", The Age, 16 October 2008, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC commences litigation against KPMG for negligence in relation to its audit of the Westpoint group of companies

  1. "ASIC sues KPMG over Westpoint audit", The Australian Financial Review, 14 October 2008, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

The financial crisis and investor fears

  1. "Greed is gone, fear is here", The Herald Sun, 11 October 2008, page 94, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC investigation into ABC Learning relating to disclosure issues

  1. "ABC Learning facing ASIC questions", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 October 2008, page 27, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "ABC learns accounts delay won't stop ASIC", The Age, Business section, 2 October 2008, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; and "Watchdog presses on with ABC inquiry", The West Australian, 2 October 2008, page 54, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Commencement of ASIC case against directors of James Hardie Industries Ltd for breach of duty

  1. "Case against Hardie board begins", The Australian Financial Review, 29 September 2008, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

The global financial crisis and the prospects for dealing with global poverty

  1. "Hope for poor in New Deal", New Sunday Times (Malaysia), 28 September 2008, page 35, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Government bailouts of companies and moral hazard

  1. "Warning! Moral Hazard alert", The Age, Business section, 28 September 2008, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC ban on short selling of listed shares

  1. "Confusion abounds as short-sell rules change again", The Canberra Times, 24 September 2008, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Short selling ban and US rescue breath new life into stocks", The Herald Sun, 23 September 2008, page 24, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Investors scramble for stock: confused start with ban", The Courier Mail, 23 September 2008, page 27, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. SKY TV, The Business Report Program, 22 September 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

US government US$ 700 billion rescue package to buy distressed mortgage debt from banks and comparisons with Australia

  1. ABC TV, The Midday Report Program, 22 September 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The 1pm and 2pm News Programs, 22 September 2008 and ABC 612 (Brisbane), The 5pm News Program, 22 September 2008

Pan Pharmaceuticals fined $10 million and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions discontinues the prosecution of former Pan Pharmaceuticals CEO

  1. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 19 September 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Increasing turnover of CEOs

  1. "Turnover at the top gathers pace", The Australian Financial Review, 10 September 2008, page S4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Criticisms of credit rating agencies

  1. "Kings of conflict", The Age, Business section, 6 September 2008, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Litigation against companies and directors as an indicator of company failure

  1. "Courting failure: survey", The Herald Sun, 4 September 2008, page 71, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Aristocrat Leisure settles shareholder class action for $144 million

  1. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 28 August 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Former HIH Insurance Deputy Chair has banning order overturned

  1. "Abbott appeal success", The Herald Sun, 26 August 2008, page 29, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Executive remuneration issues when companies share prices decline

  1. "Panic in the executive suite", The Australian Financial Review, 23 August 2008, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Pan Pharmaceutical former CEO awarded $50 million in compensation by government in settlement of legal claim

  1. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 14 August 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Younger CEOs appointed by major Australian companies

  1. "The young guns", The Herald Sun, 2 August 2008, page 91, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "New wave of young guns take the reins", The Adelaide Advertiser, 2 August 2008, page 70

Research by the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation on which courts hand down most corporate law judgments

  1. "Business litigants back Spigelman court", The Australian, 25 July 2008, page 29, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "'Sydney vortex' pulls in corporate suits", The Australian Financial Review, 27 June 2008, page 53, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Alan Cameron appointed chair of ASX Markets Supervision

  1. "ASX beefs up supervisory department", The Age, Business online, 21 July 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Tax havens

  1. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 17 July 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Banning of company directors by ASIC

  1. "More directors challenge bans", The Australian Financial Review, 7 July 2008, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Speech by the Commonwealth Treasurer on foreign investment

  1. "Swan's warning shot", The Herald Sun, 5 July 2008, page 91, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASX study on directors failing to disclose their share trading

  1. "Crackdown urged on director trades", The West Australian, 28 June 2008, page 75, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC restructure to deal with market developments

  1. "ASIC knew it all but did nothing", The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 June 2008, page 41, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Senator Andrew Murray retires from Parliament

  1. "Revisions and time for tea for retiring senator who flourished on details", The Age, Business section, 28 June 2008, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Chinese investment in Australian resource companies

  1. "Foreign surge hots up but door is open", The Herald Sun, 27 June 2008, page 77, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Overseas buying in spotlight", The Courier Mail, 27 June 2008, page 45; "Australian mining focus rises", The Adelaide Advertiser, 27 June 2008, page 83

ASIC litigation against former Westpoint director Norman Carey

  1. "ASIC starts anew against Westpoint", The Herald Sun, 27 June 2008, page 79, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "'Technical' victory for Westpoint founder", The Adelaide Advertiser, 27 June 2008, page 84

Richard Pratt faces criminal charges in relation to evidence he gave to the ACCC about the cartel between Visy Industries and Amcor

  1. "Cold war", The Herald Sun, 28 June 2008, page 27, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Hole in billionaire's deal", The Australian, 21 June 2008, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Pratt team hits back" The Herald Sun, 21 June 2008, page 91, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "Pratt charges show ACCC 'getting tough'", AAP, 20 June 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Criminal case sends message", The Townsville Bulletin, 21 June 2008, page 69; "Pratt case fuels up the fight against cartels", The Hobart Mercury, 21 June 2008, page 28; "Pratt vows to fight", The Sunraysia Daily, 21 June 2008, page 21
  5. ABC News Radio, The Breakfast Program, 20 June 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 20 June 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 20 June 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Government Green Paper on financial services and credit reform

  1. "Swan treads well-worn path to financial safety", The Australian Financial Review, 7 June 2008, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Proposal to outlaw predatory lending", The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2008, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC TV, The Lateline Business Program, 3 June 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC and corporate collapses

  1. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 23 May 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposed merger of Westpac and St George banks

  1. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 13 May 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Merger fees trough", The Age, Business section, 13 May 2008, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC announces structural changes

  1. "ASIC rings in the changes", The Age, Business section, 9 May 2008, page 1, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

Margin calls and forced sale of shares by company directors

  1. "Murky round margins: forced share sales unlikely to put directors in the hot seat", The Courier Mail, 8 May 2008, page 64, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Incorporated law firms and conflicts of interest

  1. "Question mark still hangs over incorporation", Lawyers Weekly, 2 May 2008, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Call for disclosure of share trading by senior executives of listed companies

  1. "Calls for tougher stance on share disclosure", The Australian, 24 April 2008, page 33, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Collapse of investment firm Chartwell Enterprises

  1. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Breakfast Program, 23 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Share trading by company directors and enforcement of trading disclosure laws

  1. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 16 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Chinese investment in Australian resource companies

  1. "The China connection", The Herald Sun, 12 April 2008, page 99, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "China ready to buy", The Courier Mail, 14 April 2008, page 26, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Collapse of margin lender Lift Capital

  1. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 11 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Collapse of Opes Prime stockbrokers

  1. "Clients lose title to stock in Opes case", The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 May 2008, page 41, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The 7pm News Program, 2 May 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also ABC Radio 936 (Hobart), The 8pm News Program
  3. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 2 May 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "Opes client loses court bid", The Age, Business online, 2 May 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "ANZ sticks to its big guns", The Australian Financial Review, 19 April 2008, page 13, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. "Who can you trust?", The Age, Business section, 19 April 2008, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 18 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. SKY TV, The Business Report, 11 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 7 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. ABC TV, The Inside Business Program, 6 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. "Misleading' claim the clients' only hope", The Australian, 5 April 2008, page 39, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  12. "Merrill turns in surplus to administrators", The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 April 2008, page 45, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. "Opes woes hit more stocks", The Age – online, 3 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  14. ABC Radio National, The Breakfast Program, 2 April 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  15. "Warning: margin calls ahead", The Age, Business section, 1 April 2008, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Investors face asset sales as margin calls linger", The West Australian, 1 April 2008, page 38, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  16. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 31 March 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  17. SKY TV, The Business Report, 31 March 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  18. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 31 March 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  19. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Breakfast Program, 31 March 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Commentary on call to merge ASIC and APRA

  1. "No super regulator, says Sherry", The Australian Financial Review, 2 April 2008, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Calls for more disclosure of data on short selling and share lending

  1. "Lack of action on stock lending blasted", The Australian Financial Review, 1 April 2008, page 9, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

The collapse of stockbrokers Opes Prime and the implications for investors and regulators of volatile markets

  1. "Opes Prime: who understood?", The Age, Business section, 1 April 2008, page 10, article written by Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporate law reform recommendations from government advisory committees yet to have a government response

  1. "Corporate law review at standstill", The Australian Financial Review, 25 March 2008, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Citigroup sues ABC Learning Centres Ltd executives

  1. "Bank sues ABC bosses", The Courier Mail, 15 March 2008, page 75, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC investigation of market manipulation and insider trading

  1. "ASIC on insider trading hunt", The Age, Business section, 12 March 2008, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Watchdog goes after marker manipulators" The West Australian, 12 March 2008, page 61

Regulation of short selling

  1. "ASX closes loophole: market cowboys reigned in", The Australian, 7 March 2008, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. Radio 2GB (Sydney), The Drive Program, 7 March 2008, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Margin loans and directors

  1. "Experts cool on debt-level disclosure shake-up", The Age, Business Section, 29 February 2008, page 1, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan
  2. "ABC Learning turmoil", ABC Radio National, Breakfast Program, 28 February 2008, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

Regulation of financial advisers

  1. "Disclosure: means well but failing", The Australian Financial Review, 19 February 2008, page 4, report on comments by Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan to the ASIC Summer School

Corporate social responsibility and superannuation funds

  1. "Good deeds and super returns", The Sunday Age, 17 February 2008, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Reform of business laws and the new Labor government

  1. "Grand ambition", Business Review Weekly, 7 February 2008, page 29, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Legal challenges to the Takeovers Panel

  1. "Panel to prove its worth", The Australian Financial Review, 11 January 2008, page 8, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

2007

ASIC commences civil action for breaches of duty by former AWB officers

  1. "ASIC sues former AWB directors", The Australian Financial Review, 20 December 2007, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Six face AWB kickback charges", The Canberra Times, 20 December 2007, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 19 December 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. AAP, 19 December 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

High Court challenge to the powers of the Takeovers Panel

  1. "Bid to disarm Takeover Panel", The Australian Financial Review, 10 November 2007, page 9, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Law firm partners as directors of companies

  1. "Tighter rules on partners as directors", The Australian Financial Review, 23 November 2007, page 57, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Shareholder advisory votes on executive remuneration in listed companies

  1. ABC Radio National, The Saturday Extra Program, 10 November 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio National, The Breakfast Program, 7 November 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Executive remuneration at Telstra

  1. "Telstra directors face savage pay retribution", The Australian, 10 November 2007, page 38, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Investors lash Telstra over Sol's millions", The Australian Financial Review, 8 November 2007, page24, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Telstra under fire on CEO pay", The Australian Financial Review, 6 November 2007, page 18, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Companies responses when facing product recalls

  1. "Damage control", The Age – online, 9 November 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

$36 million penalty imposed on Visy Ltd and its senior executives for operating a cartel

  1. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 2 November 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC TV, The 7pm News Program, 2 November 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 2 November 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), ABC 720 (Perth), ABC Radio 936 (Hobart), The News Program, 2 November 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

New requirements for unlisted and unrated debentures

  1. "ASIC moves to reduce investor risk", The Age, Business section, 2 November 2007, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Closing lender loopholes", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 November 2007, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Class actions against corporations

  1. ABC Radio National, The Law Report Program, 30 October 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Richard Pratt and Visy Ltd admit to a cartel arrangement

  1. "Papering over cartel crimes", The Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2007, page 72, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Growers still boxed in", The Courier Mail, 20 October 2007, page 67, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Visy case puts price fixers on notice", The Age, Business section, 17 October 2007, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "Call for jail in cartel actions", The Herald Sun, 17 October 2007, page 43, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "Jail terms call for cartel breaches", The Courier Mail, 17 October 2007, page 41, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. ABC Radio 2C0 (Riverina), The Breakfast Program, 17 October 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The 6pm News, 16 October 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Breakfast Program, 16 October 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. "Watchdog gets its day in court against Pratt", The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 October 2007, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "ACCC to bring Pratt out of box", The Age, Business section, 15 October 2007, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. ABC Radio National, The National Interest Program, 14 October, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. ABC Radio National, The Breakfast Program, 12 October 2007, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan
  12. ABC TV, The Lateline Business Program, 9 October 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. ABC TV, The 7pm National News Program, 9 October 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  14. "Pratt confesses he gave nod to price-fixing", The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 October 2007, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Financing of the Gunns Ltd Tasmanian pulp mill

  1. "Gunns go-ahead put heat on ANZ", The Australian Financial Review, 6 October 2007, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Changes to the disclosure requirements for the top 20 shareholders of unlisted public companies

  1. "Shareholders behind a veil", The Herald Sun, 3 October 2007, page 35, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "New law simpler to hide behind", The Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2007, page 31, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Research study of directors priorities by Meredith Jones, Shelley Marshall, Richard Mitchell and Ian Ramsay

  1. "Directors balance competing interests", Super Funds, November 2007, page 4
  2. "Report on director's views regarding stakeholders", Butterworths Corporations Law Bulletin No 20, 19 October 2007
  3. "CEOs grab governance bull by horns", Risk Management, October 2007, page 7, interview with Meredith Jones
  4. "Investors not first priority", The Courier Mail, 15 October 2007, page 36
  5. "Short shrift for investor's gift", The Adelaide Advertiser, 8 October 2007, page 34
  6. "Loyalty scorned", The Sunday Times, 7 October 2007, page 64
  7. "Shareholders don't matter", The Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2007, page 33
  8. "Crunching HR's numbers is critical", Human Resources, 2 October 2007, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. "In the back of their minds", The Herald Sun, 1 October 2007, page 33, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. "Directors balance stakeholder interest", Company Director, October 2007, page 14, interview with Meredith Jones and Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. "Report finds directors' interests cover all", CPA Australia, 27 September 2007
  12. Chanticleer column, "An arrogant Coles taken to task", Australian Financial Review, 21 September 2007, page 84, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. "Shareholders the top priority - just", Business Review Weekly, 20 September 2007, interview with Meredith Jones and Professor Ian Ramsay
  14. "Boards walk the talk", Business Review Weekly, 20 September 2007, page 56
  15. "Directors show sense of balance", The Australian Financial Review, 12 September 2007, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  16. "Corporate balancing act reflects broader horizons", The Age, Business section, 12 September 2007, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  17. "Shareholders slip down the pecking order, The Australian, 12 September 2007, page 45, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  18. "Directors value customers, staff", The West Australian, 12 September 2007, page 61, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  19. "Directors' priorities", The Herald Sun, 12 September 2007, page 37, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  20. "Australian company directors rank employees' interests more highly than in USA: survey" , Workplace Express, 12 September 2007, interview with Meredith Jones, Shelley Marshall and Professor Ian Ramsay
  21. "Bosses keen for a work of love", MX Melbourne, 12 September 2007, page 6, interview with Shelley Marshall

RAMS Home Loans Group foreshadows profit downgrade as a result of financial market volatility

  1. ABC TV, The Lateline Business Program, 14 August 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Restructuring of PBL

  1. "PBL split delayed due to tax wrangles", The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 August 2007, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Advertising of investments in property development companies

  1. "Crackdown bid on property ads", The Age, Business section, 1 August 2007, page B1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 August 2007, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Stockmarket analyst fined for insider trading

  1. "Insider trading secrets exposed", The Courier Mail, 30 July 2007, page 24, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Fine for insider trading", The Courier Mail, 27 July 2007, page 37, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Property development company collapses

  1. "Bricks and slaughter", The Age, Business section, 21 July 2007, page B1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Collapse of property development company Bridgcorp Holdings

  1. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 3 July 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC loses insider trading and conflicts of interest case against Citigroup

  1. ABC TV, The Inside Business Program, 1 July 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio National, The Breakfast Program, 29 June 2007, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan
  3. "Court rejects ASIC Citi case", The Australian, 29 June 2007, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "No regrets over a case it had to take", The Australian Financial Review, 29 June 2007, page 9, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "Citigroup cleared over insider trading", The Deal.com, 29 June 2007, interview with Professor 
    Ian Ramsay
  6. "Australian court clears Citigroup of insider trading", Reuters, 28 June 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. "ASIC insider trading case goes up in smoke", AAP, 28 June 2007, interview with Professor Ian 
    Ramsay
  8. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Drive Program, 28 June 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

US Supreme Court decision on resale price maintenance

  1. "US price ruling may affect some exporters", The Age, Business section, 30 June 2007, page B3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Law firm Slater & Gordon lists on the Australian Securities Exchange

  1. "A new brief", Business Review Weekly, 28 June 2007, page 64, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Harmonisation of business laws between Australia and New Zealand

  1. "Harmony in the hemisphere", Australasian Legal Business, June 2007, page 36, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Stockmarket analyst pleads guilty to insider trading

  1. "Analyst facing prison", The Courier Mail, 7 June 2007, page 63, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Melbourne City Council's financial difficulties

  1. "The buck stops here, here or here?", The Sunday Age, 3 June 2007, page 17, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Research report on institutional investors and the human resource practices of investee companies

  1. "Issue of the week - people investors", The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June 2007, Careers section, page 6
  2. "Fund watch on workers", The Herald Sun, 1 June 2007, page 42
  3. "Institutional investors banking on good human resources", The Age, Business section, 31 May 2007, page B4

Collapse of property developer Australian Capital Reserve

  1. Radio 2UE (Sydney), The Drive Program, 30 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 29 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. SBS TV, The World News Program, 29 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 29 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ACCC loses petrol price fixing case

  1. "Watchdog fails to show fuel price fixing", The Canberra Times, 30 May 2007, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "ACCC loss in petrol price fixing case", AAP, 29 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Independence issues and the big 4 auditing firms

  1. "Beyond the call", Business Review Weekly, 24 May 2007, page 66, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Takeover bid for Qantas

  1. "Jackson to quit in Qantas fallout", The Australian Financial Review, 18 May 2007, page 64, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Like vampires, the bid may be undead", The Age, Business section, 9 May 2007, page B6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. SBS TV, The World News Program, 8 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. Channel 10 TV, The Evening News Program, 8 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 8 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney), The Breakfast Program, 8 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. "Frantic search for last minute options", The Australian Financial Review, 8 May 2007, page 15, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. "Canberra to order Qantas sell-off", The Australian, 8 May 2007, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. "Qantas circus rolls on", The Age, Business section, 8 May 2007, page B1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. "On again ... maybe", The Herald Sun, 8 May 2007, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. "Qantas takeover 'still alive' after new twist", The Courier Mail, 8 May 2007, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  12. "Qantas bid may still be salvaged", The Adelaide Advertiser, 8 May 2007, page 31, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. ABC TV, The Lateline Business Program, 7 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  14. ABC News Radio, Finance Program, 7 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  15. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 7 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  16. "Bid hits the canvas", The Herald Sun, 7 May 2007, page 31, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  17. "Qantas bid stalls", The Courier Mail, 7 May 2007, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  18. "Qantas bidder may have to start again", The Adelaide Advertiser, 7 May 2007, page 60, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  19. "Macquarie group to seek approval to extend bid", Bloomberg, 5 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  20. "Qantas bid grounded", The Deal.com, 4 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  21. "Legal stoush in the wings over Qantas", The Australian Financial Review, 18 April 2007, page 48, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  22. "Airline partners losing support", The Australian Financial Review, 16 April 2007, page 13, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  23. ABC Radio National, The Breakfast Program, 15 March 2007, interview with Dr John Howe

Enforcement of the continuous disclosure rules

  1. "Secretaries give notice of regime's flaws", The Australian Financial Review, 16 May 2007, page 14, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ACCC action against Visy Industries

  1. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 14 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

The costs and benefits of corporate governance requirements

  1. "Getting the balance right on corporate governance", The Boardroom Report, 10 May 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Appointment of Tony D'Aloisio as the new chairman of ASIC

  1. "D'Aloisio picked to head ASIC", The Herald Sun, 28 April 2007, page 91, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Watchdog barks as ex-ASX boss takes over", The Australian, 28 April 2007, page 31, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Federal Court decision on the powers of the Takeovers Panel

  1. "Call to fix takeovers turmoil", The Australian, 26 April 2007, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Takeovers Panel in doubt", The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 April 2007, page 19

Issue of Australian Football League CEO having multiple directorships

  1. "AFL chief has 10 other jobs", The Adelaide Sunday Mail, 22 April 2007, page 57, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in the Sunday Tasmanian, 22 April 2007, page 13

Special purpose liquidator examinations into the collapse of One.Tel

  1. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 18 April 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposal to remove the powers of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to disqualify people from holding certain positions in APRA regulated organisations

  1. "Watchdog might keep power", The Age, Business section, 17 April 2007, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Class action launched against AWB Ltd

  1. Radio 2SER FM (Sydney), Radio 101.5 FM (Adelaide), Radio 3CR (Melbourne), Radio 98.9 FM (Brisbane) and other community radio stations, The Wire Current Affairs Program, 17 April 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposed listing on the ASX by law firm Slater & Gordon

  1. "Law firm's float raises cash and eyebrows", The West Australian, 14 April 2007, page 70, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC litigation against Citigroup

  1. "Interest conflicts overshadow inside-trade claims", The Age, Business section, 11 April 2007, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Quick hearing for a big brief", The Australian, 30 March 2007, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Global watch on Citigroup's fight with ASIC", The Australian, 26 March 2007, page 32, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, The Weekend Breakfast Program, 24 March 2007, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

Major litigation between GlaxoSmithKline and Biota concerning marketing of the flu drug Relenza

  1. "It's Biota v Goliath in massive court showdown", The Age, 31 March 2007, Business section, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposed takeover of Bendigo Bank by Bank of Queensland

  1. "Proposal doesn't appear to suit bank's individuality", The Bendigo Advertiser, 22 March 2007, page 8, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Law firms proposing to list on the Australian Securities Exchange

  1. ABC TV, The Inside Business Program, 18 March 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "The Perth controversy" Australasian Legal Business, January 2007, page 16, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation and Institutional Shareholder Services corporate governance conference

  1. "Directors accused of failing on private equity", The Age, 17 March 2007, page 7

Issue of whether Coles kept the market informed about its financial performance

  1. ABC TV, 7pm National News, 16 March 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC TV, The Lateline Business Program, 16 March 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Former Reserve Bank Governor joins Goldman Sachs JB Were

  1. "Mcfarlane takes his expertise to Goldman", The Age, Business section, 6 March 2007, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposal to amend the insider trading laws

  1. "Company directors trading rule tightened", The Age, Business section, 3 March 2007, page 9, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

White collar crime

  1. "Get out of jail free?", In the Black, March 2007, page 47, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Research study on delistings and corporate law reform by Ian Ramsay and Nicholas Lew

  1. "Revolving doors of the stock exchange", The Adelaide Advertiser, 27 February 2007, page 41
  2. "To delist or not to delist", Australasian Legal Business, January 2007, page 20
  3. "Going dark not due to compliance burdens: report", Risk Management, January 2007, page 4

ASIC litigation against directors of James Hardie Industries Ltd for breaches of directors duties

  1. "Watchdog's revenge", The Australian, 24 February 2007, page 27, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Hardie shares sink", The Herald Sun, 22 February 2007, page 68, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Hellicar leaves Hardie with $1m", The Australian, 21 February 2007, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "Hellicar to step down, not out", The Australian, 21 February 2007, page 24, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. ABC TV, The Lateline Business Program, 20 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 20 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 20 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 20 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. "Telling inquiries rise from clouded Hardie debacle", The Australian Financial Review, 17 February 2007, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. "Lawsuit guns for Hardie bosses", The Australian, 16 February 2007, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. "Watchdog casts net to land the big fish", The Australian, 16 February 2007, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  12. "Asbestos scandal hits board", The Age, 16 February 2007, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. "Top guns reel", The Herald Sun, 16 February 2007, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  14. "Market tips hardy Hardie", The Herald Sun, 16 February 2007, page 43, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  15. "Hardie brass probe - ASIC to seek civil penalties over asbestos compo scandal", The Courier Mail, 16 February 2007, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  16. "Ten named in asbestos case", The Adelaide Advertiser, 16 February 2007, page 63, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  17. "ASIC acts on Hardie", The Hobart Mercury, 16 February 2007, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  18. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 16 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  19. ABC Radio National, The Lateline Business Program, 15 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  20. ABC TV, 7.30 Report Program, 15 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  21. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 15 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  22. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Drive Program, 15 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  23. ABC TV, The Midday Report Program, 15 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  24. "James Hardie sued by regulator over asbestos funding", Bloomberg, 15 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Buyouts of companies and financial incentives for executives

  1. "Questions over executive incentives", The Australian Financial Review, 5 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Academics and public debate

  1. "Silence from the ivory tower", CFO Magazine, February 2007, page 18, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

High Court decision on the rights of shareholders in an administration who have been mislead when purchasing shares

  1. "Queue jumping: how the High Court changed the rules", The Age, Business section, 28 February 2007, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Breakfast Program, 1 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Court drops shareholder bombshell", The Age, Business section, 1 February 2007, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposed management buyout of Alinta Ltd

  1. ABC Radio National, The Saturday Extra Program, 3 February 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Questions remain over Poynton's MBO role", The Financial Times, 30 January 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Conduct unbecoming", The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 January 2007, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "Did Macquarie 'cross the line' over Macquarie?", The Australian, 20 January 2007, page 36, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "Macquarie Bank's Alinta deal rakes conflict issues", Reuters, 17 January 2007, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. "Pressure builds on MacBank", The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 January 2007, page 17, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Allegation of conflict of interest concerning the former chairman of TransGrid

  1. "Bid to smear me: sacked power chief", The Australian, 27 January 2007, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Effect of legal charges on business careers

  1. "Talbot's reputation bruised by scandal", The Courier Mail, 20 January 2007, page 71, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Conflicts of interest and takeovers

  1. "Conflicts of interest: a crisis or silly season phenomenon?", The Age, Business section, 20 January 2007, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Conflicted chiefs push the envelope", The Australian Financial Review, 13 January 2007, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Beware conflicts, executives urged", The Australian, 4 January 2007, page 17, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Criticism of payouts to former AWB Ltd executives

  1. "AWB pair gain thousands in retirement benefits", The Age, 18 January 2007, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

2006

ASIC obtains enforceable undertaking from Multiplex for its failure to comply with continuous disclosure obligations

  1. "ASIC undertaking gets nod", The Australian Financial Review, 21 December 2006, page 40, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Establishment by ASIC of insider trading surveillance unit

  1. "Praise for ASIC surveillance boost", The Australian, 12 December 2006, page 17, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

The rise of private equity

  1. ABC Radio National, The Law Report Program, 5 December 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Possible private equity bid for Qantas

  1. "Qantas raises forecast and pressure on bidders", The International Herald Tribune, 2 December 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "How Qantas and its suitors will sell a takeover", Reuters, 1 December 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Former CEO of Primelife Corporation loses case for wrongful dismissal

  1. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 28 November 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Report of the Royal Commission into the actions of AWB Ltd and the UN Oil-for-Food Program

  1. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney), The Breakfast Program, 28 November 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Unhappy shareholders may launch $60m class action", The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 November 2006, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Research study on delistings and corporate law reform by Ian Ramsay and Nicholas Lew

  1. "Companies not delisting because of corporate law reforms", Across the Board, 28 November 2006, page 1
  2. "Set and forget' and regret", The Australian, 25 November 2006, page 44
  3. "Study shows big turnover of listed companies", The Australian Financial Review, 24 November 2006, page 83
  4. "More delist and enlist private cash", The Age, Business section, 22 November 2006, page 3
  5. "Stricter regulations not cause of delisting, experts say", The Australian, 22 November 2006, page 48
  6. "Local companies not prone to delisting", The Australian Financial Review, 22 November 2006, page 16

Possible changes at Telstra following the T3 sale

  1. "Splitting with the Telstra loot", The Canberra Times, 21 November 2006, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Telstra 3 sale completed

  1. "Telstra: Govt reaps $15.5b", The Canberra Times, 20 November 2006, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Disclosure of executive remuneration

  1. "Here's the tip: Just follow the cool money", The Age, 19 November 2006, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Increasing shareholder activism

  1. "Starting to have their voices heard", The Courier Mail, 18 November 2006, page 76, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Calls for increased disclosure of corporate information

  1. "Annual reports in the bin", The West Australian, 11 November 2006, page 83, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Increased number of takeovers and insider trading

  1. "ASX probes spikes - takeovers frenzy generates market whispers of insider trading", The Courier Mail, 11 November 2006, page 71, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Challenges for mid-tier accounting firms

  1. "Caught in the undertow", Business Review Weekly, 9 November 2006, page 129, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

University of Melbourne graduate law programs

  1. "Top of the class", Australasian Legal Business, October 2006, page 50, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Issue of James Hardie Industries Ltd possibly indemnifying its officers for breaches of duty

  1. "Indemnity for Hardie directors 'unlawful'", The Australian, 4 October 2006, page 35, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

CEO remuneration

  1. "Business executives line up for the gravy train as investors go without", The Age, 1 October 2006, page 14, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee report on personal liability for corporate fault

  1. "Law too tough on top officials", The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 September 2006, page 18, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in The Age, Business section, 27 September 2006, page 1

Statute of limitations soon to expire in relation to possible legal claims arising from James Hardie Industries Ltd underfunding of compensation for asbestos victims

  1. "Delays may help Hardie directors avoid lawsuits", The Australian, 19 September 2006, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Takeovers Panel reforms proposed

  1. "Bill praised for takeover makeover", Lawyers Weekly, 15 September 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "New powers for Takeovers Panel", The Australian, 8 September 2006, page 19, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Costello to beef up Takeovers Panel clout", The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 September 2006, page 19, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Company ordered to pay damages for breach of the continuous disclosure rules

  1. "Disclosure suit serves as a warning", The Australian, 7 September 2006, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Disclosure of fees in superannuation

  1. "Sting of fees may be softened by exposure to the light", The Australian Financial Review, 23 August 2006, Managed funds quarterly review, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Possible takeover of Coles Myer

  1. "Tell more about bid: investors", The West Australian, 22 August 2006, page 41, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 19 August 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC TV - The Lateline Business Program, 18 August 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Disclosure of companies changing their auditors

  1. "Companies urged to explain audit flips", The Age, Business section, 11 August 2006, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

The Takeovers Panel

  1. "Warning on challenges to Panel", The Australian, 9 August 2006, page 24, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Takeovers Panel used for tactical edge", The Australian Financial Review, 9 August 2006, page 50, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Takeovers Panel faces grim future", The Age, Business section, 9 August 2006, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

AWB appoints new managing director

  1. "AWB appoints Gordon Davis as new managing director", Bloomberg, 3 August 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Law firm sued for role in IPO

  1. "Baker faces test case on role in float", The Australian Financial Review, 28 July 2006, page 58, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Class actions

  1. "Class action getting out of hand as big money leads to temptation", The Sunday Age, 23 July 2006, page 14, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Investors court litigation on the path to retribution", The Age, Business section, 22 July 2006, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Company Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board

  1. "Hard board", Business Review Weekly, 13 July 2006, page 88, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Structure of boards of directors

  1. "Strong boards need balance", Business Review Weekly, 6 July 2006, page 58, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Research on CEO shareholdings

  1. "Shareholding bosses good for the company", The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 July 2006, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Research finds bosses take stakes in own companies", The Age, Business section, 11 July 2006, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Companies whose chiefs put money where mouth is do better", The West Australian, 11 July 2006, page 36, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Former National Australia Bank traders jailed for fraud

  1. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 4 July 2006, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

Research on how company directors rank the interests of stakeholders

  1. "Ranking in the ranks", The Australian Financial Review, 3 July 2006, page 34, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Study to analyse company priorities", The Age, Business section, 28 June 2006, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Directors face questions on their work priorities", The West Australian, 28 June 2006, page 50, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC action against Citigroup

  1. "ASIC clarifies dispute with Citigroup", The Age, Business section, 1 July 2006, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Citigroup Australia denies insider trading, client conflicts", Bloomberg, 19 May 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Citigroup hits back" The Herald Sun, 20 May 2006, page 93, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in the Courier Mail, 20 May 2006, page 70
  4. "Citigroup is test case for Australia's insider trading rules", Bloomberg, 27 April 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "A mixed week", The Economist, 8 April 2006, page 71, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in the New Zealand Herald, 10 April 2006

The value of expert reports

  1. "Experts' reports in question", The Australian Financial Review, 14 June 2006, page 56, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Steve Vizard faces possible perjury charges

  1. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 8 June 2006, interview with Helen Bird

Delays with the state governments renewing their referral of powers over companies to the federal government

  1. "States let Costello sweat on business law", The Australian Financial Review, 2 June 2006, page 7, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Convictions of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling

  1. "Some comfort as Enron dust settles", The Australian Financial Review, 27 May 2006, page 7, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Proposal to extend the business judgment rule for directors

  1. "Controversial reforms by 'end of year'", The Australian Financial Review, 22 May 2006, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Legal liability of accountants

  1. "Legal liability of accountants", Charter, May 2006, page 32

Increased funding for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission

  1. "ASIC gets hands on war chest", The Age, Business section, 11 May 2006, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Location of corporate headquarters in Sydney and Melbourne

  1. "Wish you were here", The Age Magazine, April 2006, page 54, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC policy proposal on auditor rotation

  1. "ASIC plan to ease audit rules", The Age, 14 April 2006, page 24, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in the Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April 2006, page 32

Legal challenges to the US Sarbanes Oxley Act

  1. "The future of Sarbanes Oxley", The Sox First website, 7 April 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Fund managers and conflicts of interest

  1. "Fund managers on ASIC radar", The Australian Financial Review, 10 April 2006, page 52, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

The costs of complex laws

  1. "Gleeson: more rules could cripple system", The Australian Financial Review, 7 April 2006, page 64, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Difficulties for regulators in prosecuting insider trading

  1. "Uphill battle to prove case", The Courier Mail, 5 April 2006, page 40, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

University of Melbourne graduate law programs

  1. "Read to succeed", Australasian Legal Business, March 2006, page 48, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Litigation by shareholders

  1. "Study finds modest gains for derivative actions, while class actions power ahead", Across the Board, 14 March 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Chartered Secretaries Australia calls for the introduction of direct voting by shareholders

  1. "CSA wants direct voting by mail", The Australian Bendigo Advertiser, 22 March 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Push for shareholder voting rights", The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 March 2006, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Legal challenge to the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

  1. "SOX legal challenge misses point", Lawyers Weekly, 10 March 2006, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Commission of Inquiry into the actions of AWB Ltd and the sale of wheat to Iraq

  1. "Statement of contrition turns up the heat on AWB", Across the Board, 23 May 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. Radio 2SER FM (Sydney), Radio 101.5 FM (Adelaide), Radio 3CR (Melbourne) and other community radio stations, The Wire Current Affairs Program, 22 May 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC Regional Radio - New South Wales and Western Australia, The Country Hour Program, 9 March 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Regional Radio - Victoria, The Country Hour Program, 7 March 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "AWB's wise monkeys" The Australian Financial Review, 7 March 2006, page 61, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. ABC Southern Queensland Radio, The Rural Report Program, 23 February 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. "ASIC bides its time on AWB scandel", The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 February 2006, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. "Governance structures hampered accountability at AWB", Across the Board, 7 February 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. "Bitter harvest", The Australian, 28 January 2006, page 29, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Growth of shareholder class actions

1. Radio 2SER FM (Sydney), Radio 101.5 FM (Adelaide), Radio 3CR (Melbourne), Radio 98.9 FM 
(Brisbane) and 53 other radio stations, The Wire Current Affairs Program, 7 March 2006, interview 
with Professor Ian Ramsay 

ASIC enforcement action against Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and its CEO Andrew Forrest for alleged misleading and deceptive conduct and breaches of continuous disclosure rules and director's duties

  1. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 6 March 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Liability of corporate employers for negligent acts in breach of the Children's Services Act

  1. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 1 March 2006, interview with Dr John Howe

Federal Court appeal decision on the rights of shareholders in an administration who have been mislead when purchasing shares

  1. "Gwalia case pure gold for holders", The Australian, 28 February 2006, page 19, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Ongoing investigation into the actions of James Hardie Industries Ltd and its former executives

  1. "On the fast lane to nowhere", The Australian, 4 February 2006, page 19, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Auditor General's report into ASIC's implementation of financial service licences

  1. "ASIC rapped over financial scrutiny", The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 January 2006, page 23, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

Expansion of Macquarie Bank

  1. "Macquarie exports its funds model offshore", Reuters, 6 January 2006, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

2005

ACCC brings enforcement action against Visy Industries and Richard Pratt alleging participation in a cartel with Amcor Ltd

  1. "Legal case could last years", The Herald Sun, 23 December 2005, page 15, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in the Courier Mail, 23 December 2005, page 31
  2. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 22 December 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. Sky TV, The Business News Program, 22 December 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC enforcement of continuous disclosure rules

  1. "Disclosure rules on tortuous path", The Australian Financial Review, 21 December 2005, page 7, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Strengthening of the Australian Stock Exchange investigation and enforcement operations

  1. "ASX turns the heat on insiders", The Age, Business section, 16 December 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in the West Australian, 16 December 2005, page 43

Research indicating that the NSW Supreme Court hands down most corporate law judgments

  1. "NSW dominates corporate cases", The Australian Financial Review, 16 December 2005, page 47, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Henry Kaye charged with dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception under the Crimes Act of Victoria

1. ABC TV, The 7pm News Program, 9 December 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay 
2. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 9 December 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Shareholder votes on remuneration

1. "Boards listening to backers toey over pay", The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 December 2005, 
page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in The Age, Business section, page 3

James Hardie Industries Ltd signs agreement for $1.568 billion funding for asbestos victims

  1. Sky TV, The Business News Program, 1 December 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Hardie agreement", The Australian, 30 November 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC TV, The Inside Business Program, 27 November 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Directors' duties and corporate social responsibility: possible law reform

  1. "Reform on the horizon as asbestos pain continues", The Australian Financial Review, 30 November 2005, page 61, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Calls to protect corporate conscience", The Australian Financial Review, 23 November 2005, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Banks chosen to arrange the sale of the remaining government stake in Telstra Corporation

  1. "ABN Amro, UBS and Goldman to advise on A$25 billion Telstra sale", Bloomberg.com, 24 November 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC report on inspection of auditor independence

  1. "ASIC report finds no breaches - mid tier firms next', Across the Board, November 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Termination payments for executives

  1. "Disclosure won't spoil the exec payout party", The Australian, 15 November 2005, page 21, interview with Professor Geof Stapledon

Election of directors of Australian Wool Innovation Ltd

  1. ABC Regional Radio (NSW, SA, Vic, WA and Tas), The Country Hour Program, 9 November 2005, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

Comments of the judge in the Channel 7 trade practices litigation on the need for mediation to resolve the dispute

  1. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 4 November 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Bradley Cooper found guilty of corruption in relation to transactions with HIH Insurance

  1. "Cooper could be in for a long jail term: expert", The Australian Financial Review, 2 November 2005, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 31 October 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. Sky TV, The Business News Program, 31 October 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 31 October 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Government inquiry into allegations that AWB Ltd made payments to the former Iraqi regime to circumvent the UN Oil for Food Program

  1. "Directors of AWB may be at legal risk", The Australian, 2 November 2005, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Developments in directors' duties

  1. "Directors wake up to business", In the Black (CPA Australia), October 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Calls for James Hardie Industries Ltd CEO to explain his dismissal from a former position

  1. "Come clean over "sacking", Hardie warned", The Australian, 20 October 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Heat on new chief over sacking", The Australian, 19 February 2005, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Calls for ASIC to expand its public database of people banned from managing companies

  1. "ASIC under fire for not listing criminals", The Age, Business section, 18 October 2005, page 2, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

Establishment of taskforce on reducing the regulatory burden on business

  1. "Unions, consumers fear red tape slashing", The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 2005, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Debate over whether there should be a cooling off period before politicians move into the private sector

  1. "Row over Carr's plum job at bank", The Australian, 11 October 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Federal Court decision on the rights of shareholders in an administration who have been mislead when purchasing shares

  1. "Death by a thousand cuts", The Australian Financial Review, 21 September 2005, page 61 interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "It's no holders barred as creditors wrestle with judgment', The Australian, 17 September 2005, page 34, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Court ranks shareholders alongside creditors", The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 2005, page 17, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Debate on whether fund managers should disclose how they vote the shares they hold

  1. "Fund managers under pressure to disclose vote on executive pay", The Australian Financial Review, 20 September 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC commences investigation into whether Telstra Corporation breached its continuous disclosure obligations

  1. ABC TV, The Midday News and Business Program, 8 September 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Eyes on Telstra chairman", The Herald Sun, 8 September 2005, page 34, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. SBS TV, The World News Program, 7 September 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, Various News Programs, 7 September 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "Howard, ASIC target Telstra", The Australian, 7 September 2005, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. "Jail threat over disclosures", The Australian, 7 September 2005, page 31, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. Radio 3AW, News Program, 7 September 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. "PM chided for call to 'talk up interests'", The Australian Financial Review, 7 September 2005, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 6 September 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. Sky TV, The Evening News Program, 6 September 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Multiplex Ltd financial problems with the construction of Wembley stadium and disclosure issues

  1. "Memo warned about Multiplex losses", The Australian, 6 September 2005, page 24, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC TV, The 4 Corners Program, 5 September 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Disputes between the senior management of Telstra Corporation and the government

  1. "Business divided on Trujillo's shock tactics", The Age, Business section, 8 September 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Canberra may carp but Trujillo's bound to tell", The Australian, 3 September 2005, page 35, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Use of offshore trusts

  1. "Offshore trusts used as a veil", The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 August 2005, page 23, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Shareholder advisory votes on directors' and executives' remuneration

  1. "Win or lose, shareholders' vote on executive pay may still count", The Australian Financial Review, 25 August 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

NSW Supreme Court decision on duties of company executives

  1. "Ruling puts management in spotlight", The Australian Financial Review, 24 August 2005, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Location of corporate headquarters in Sydney and Melbourne

  1. "And the perfect city to live in is...", The Australian Financial Review, 20 August 2005, page 20, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Roy Hilliard, Steve Vizard's former bookkeeper, sentenced to two years suspended imprisonment for false accounting

  1. ABC TV, The Midday News and Business Program, 18 August 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 17 August 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC TV, The 7pm News Program, 12 August 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 12 August 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

International regulation of insider trading

  1. "No regulation on international playing field", The Age, Business section, 8 August 2005, page B1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporate liability for environmental cleanups

  1. ABC TV, The Stateline Program, 29 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Steve Vizard banned from managing companies for 10 years and penalised $390,000 for breaches of his duties as a director of Telstra in relation to share trading

  1. "Where ASIC went wrong", The Bulletin, 2 August 2005, page 19, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Why the force isn't with Australia's corporate police", The Bulletin, 2 August 2005, page 48, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. Channel 9 TV, The Today Program, 29 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. "Judge doubles ban for shamed Vizard", The Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2005, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "ASIC rejects criticism", The Herald Sun, 29 July 2005, page 30, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. "10-year ban, $390,000 fine for Vizard", The Maitland Mercury, 29 July 2005, page 16, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 28 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. SBS TV, The World News Program, 28 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. ABC TV, The 7pm News Program, 28 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. Channel 7 TV, The Today Tonight Program, 28 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. Channel 10 TV, The TEN News Program, 28 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  12. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 28 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney), ABC Radio 891 (Adelaide), Radio 2SM (Sydney), Various News Programs, 28 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  14. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Morning Program, 28 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Ethics and corporate governance

  1. "The shame game", The Age, Business section, 30 July 2005, page B1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "It's a hard trick to balance propriety with transparency", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 August 2005, page 18, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Stephen Vizard admits breaches of his duties as a director of Telstra in relation to share trading

  1. "Anger over 'lenient' treatment of Vizard", The Canberra Times, 23 July 2005, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in the Ballarat Courier, 23 July 2005, page 20
  2. Growing anger over penalties sought in Vizard case", Australian Associated Press, 22 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Just pure greed: ASIC", The Age, 22 July 2005, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 22 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. "It's no laughing matter", The Hobart Mercury, 22 July 2005, page 18, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Morning Program, 21 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. "Vizard readies bid for lenient penalty", The Australian Financial Review 21 July 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. "Trading scandal - Vizard's shares shame", The Adelaide Advertiser, 20 July 2005, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. "Vizard's future as lawyer in doubt", The Age, 19 July 2005, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. "Melbourne Inc freezes out Vizard ahead of d-day in court", The Australian, 19 July 2005, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. Radio 2CC (Canberra), The Afternoon Program, 19 July 2005, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan
  12. "Pressure on for watchdog to justify Vizard decision", The Age, Business section, 18 July 2005, page B1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. "Vizard's remorse 'key role in court'", The Australian, 18 July 2005, page 29, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan
  14. "Errant director admits his guilt", The Geelong Advertiser, 18 July 2005, page 7, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  15. ABC TV, The 7pm News Program, 17 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  16. Channel 9 TV, The Business Sunday Program, 17 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  17. "Vizard says he is 'deeply sorry' ", Australian Associated Press, 17 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  18. "Costello to look into Vizard case", The Australian Financial Review, 12 July 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  19. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney), The Morning Program, 7 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  20. Radio 3AW (Melbourne), News Program, 6 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  21. Radio 2CC (Canberra), The Morning Program, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  22. "Spotlight on ASIC over Vizard", The Australian Financial Review, 6 July 2005, page 9, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  23. "Question mark on why Vizard is not charged", The Adelaide Advertiser, 6 July 2005, page 37, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  24. "Why insiders stay out", The Herald Sun, 6 July 2005, page 39, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  25. ABC TV, The 7pm News Program, 5 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  26. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 5 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  27. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 5 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  28. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), ABC Radio 666 (Canberra), ABC Radio 720 (Perth), ABC Radio 936 (Hobart), Various News Programs, 5 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  29. ABC TV, The Midday News and Business Program, 5 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  30. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Morning Program, 5 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  31. "ASIC begins civil action", The Herald Sun, 5 July 2005, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Enforcement of insider trading laws

  1. "Inside out", The Age, Business section, 23 July 2005, page B1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Judge strikes out the Gunns Ltd statement of claim against environmental activist

  1. ABC Radio - Northern Tasmania, 18 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Penalties for corporate crime

  1. "Doing the crime but not the time", The Australian, 15 July 2005, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Union shareholder activism

  1. ABC TV, The Inside Business Program, 10 July 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Challenges for regulators in enforcing corporate laws

  1. "Moral demons", The Age, Business section, 9 July 2005, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Possible corporate restructuring in response to planned industrial relations law changes

  1. "All workers may be on notice over dismissal", The Australian, 5 July 2005, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

High Court of Australia decision denying a claim for deep vein thrombosis against Qantas Airways and British Airways

  1. "Australian High Court finds no DVT case against airlines", Dow Jones News, 24 June 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

NSW government proposal to provide immunity to directors and officers of James Hardie industries Ltd from possible civil penalty actions under the Corporations Act

  1. "Please release me", The Australian, 22 June 2005, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Hardie bosses must be liable: Costello", The Australian Financial Review, 28 May 2005, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Rodney Adler conducting business from jail

  1. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney), The Morning Program, 20 June 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Institutional shareholder activism

  1. "Institutions learn to cop it sweet", The Australian, 3 June 2005, page 31, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Business Council of Australia report on the growth of regulation

  1. "Red tape grows at three times GDP rate", The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 2005, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee report on corporate duties below board level

  1. "Crackdown on negligent managers", The Australian Financial Review, 13 May 2005, page 25, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Death of Rene Rivkin and the ASIC investigation of his share investments

  1. "Rivkin's death no obstacle to appeal", The Australian, 14 May 2005, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Watchdog chased Rivkin", The Australian, 3 May 2005, page 3, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. ABC TV, The Lateline Program, 2 May 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. Sky TV, The Business Report Program, 2 May 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. ABC Radio National, The World Today Program, 2 May 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Perpetual Trustees $52.5 million share plan for several of its fund managers

  1. "Perpetual's $52m offer to top guns", The Australian Financial Review, 2 May 2005, page 52, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Rio Tinto annual general meeting and the election of directors

  1. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 29 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Coles Myer Ltd admits to contraventions of the Trade Practices Act

  1. "Cole Myer settles with ACCC", The Australian Financial Review, 27 April 2005, page 55, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Ethical decision making in business

  1. "Value-added organisations need first to sort ethics from morals", The Age, 27 April 2005, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Use of share derivatives in takeovers

  1. "ASIC targets merger swaps", The Australian, 25 April 2005, page 27, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

HIH Insurance directors Rodney Adler and Ray Williams sentenced to terms of imprisonment

  1. ABC Radio National, The Law Report Program, 19 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "Jailing the men who changed corporate regulation in Australia - the legacy of HIH", Across the Board, 19 April 2005, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. Radio Adelaide, The Wire, 19 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 16 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. ABC Radio National, ABC Radio 702 (Sydney), ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), ABC Radio 891 (Adelaide), ABC Radio 936 (Hobart), Various News Programs, 16 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  6. "Jail time too short say HIH victims, The Australian, 16 April 2005, page 33, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  7. "No crime wave, say experts", The Australian, 16 April 2005, page 36, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  8. "Appealing or not, fewer words don't mean shorter sentences", The Australian Financial Review, 16 April 2005, page 12, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  9. Channel 7 TV, The Today Tonight Program, 15 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  10. ABC Radio Newcastle, The Drive Program, 15 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  11. ABC Radio 702 (Sydney), The Morning Program, 15 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  12. ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne), The Morning Program, 15 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  13. "Corporate criminals will pay: Costello", The Australian, 15 April 2005, page 4, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  14. "Williams about to see value of regret", The Australian Financial Review, 15 April 2005, page 89, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  15. SBS TV, The World News Tonight Program, 14 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Investigation of General Reinsurance Australia Ltd by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

  1. "Berkshire unit investigated by Australian regulator", Bloomberg.com, 14 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Threat by several state governments to withdraw support for Commonwealth government regulation of companies

  1. "Gambit on laws would be costly", The Australian, 12 April 2005, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 11 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Forthcoming sentencing of HIH directors Ray Williams and Rodney Adler

  1. "Williams, Adler about to face music", The Australian, 11 April 2005, page 27, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Study on the need for directors with more diverse backgrounds

  1. "Fund managers for boards", The Australian Financial Review, 11 April 2005, page 7, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Need for more disclosure about directors appointed to boards

  1. "Behind the boardroom doors", The Herald Sun, 9 April 2005, page 89, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

High Court decision on directors and officers liability insurance

  1. "Liability ruling cheers directors", The Australian Financial Review, 8 April 2005, page 5, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Commentary on the decision of the Federal Government to ask the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (of which Professor Ian Ramsay is a member) to investigate possible reform of directors' duties

  1. "If there's no bar to responsible boards, new plans could backfire", The Age, 6 April 2005, page 15, article commenting on Professor Ian Ramsay's article in the Australian Financial Review on 5 April 2005
  2. "Pushing the limit for directors", The Australian Financial Review, 5 April 2005, page 63, article written by Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Law push on director duties", The Sunday Age, Business section, 27 March 2005, page 5

Study of appointments to boards of directors

  1. "The well-paid, recycled directors' club", The Age, 6 April 2005, page 15, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

University of Melbourne graduate law programs

  1. "Selling the law", Australasian Legal Business, September 2005, Issue 3.9, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. "School's In", Australasian Legal Business, April 2005, page 50, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. "Master's degree for jack of all trades", The Australian Financial Review, 4 April 2005, page 36, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Takeovers boom in Australia

  1. "UBS, Deutsche Bank lead advisers for Australian M&A", Bloomberg.com, 1 April 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Advisers appointed to conduct scoping study for the Telstra 3 sell down

  1. " UBS and Caliburn to advise on T3", The Sydney Morning Herald, Business section, 30 March 2005, page 17, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Bankers set for millions after T3 coup", The Age, Business section, 30 March 2005, page 13

Former National Australia Bank currency options trader pleads guilty to dishonestly using his position

  1. "Former NAB trader pleads guilty", The International Herald Tribune, 23 March 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporate collapses and corporate law reform

  1. "Calls for business rules to be made simpler", The Adelaide Advertiser, 23 March 2005, page 49, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also "Collapses raise red tape fears", The Herald Sun, 23 March 2005, page 48, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Legal action by Australian Wool Innovation against the animal rights group PETA

  1. ABC Radio North West, South Australia and North West, Western Australia, 23 March 2005, interview with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan

Possibility of Walter Construction trading while insolvent

  1. ABC Radio National, The AM Program, 22 March 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Possible liability of James Hardie Industries in relation to the Baryulgil asbestos mine

  1. "Warning on Hardie 'sellout'", The Australian, 22 March 2005, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Penalties for white collar crime

  1. "A bad week for corporate criminals", The Australian Financial Review, 19 March 2005, page 22, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Multiplex financial write downs and the building of Wembley stadium

  1. "Raising the stakes", The Australian, 17 March 2005, page 39, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Seminar on the Takeovers Panel organised by the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation

  1. "Getting what you need from the Panel five years on", Australian Corporate News, 6 April 2005, page 64
  2. "Conflicts of interest good for takeovers", The Australian Financial Review, 14 March 2005, page 5

Government proposal to make it more difficult for shareholders to call a meeting of shareholders

  1. "Give us a high five first", The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 2005, Money section, page 11, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay; also in The Age, 9 March 2005, Money section

Legal costs in relation to a company liquidation following a voluntary administration

  1. "Barrister faults the Corporations Act", Lawyers Weekly, 25 February 2005, page 1, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporate governance issues in 2005

  1. "2005 business forecast", In the Black (Australian CPA), February 2005, page 30, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Disclosure of superannuation fees

  1. "Choice disclosure rules still a worry", The Australian Financial Review, 21 February 2005, page 55, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

James Hardie Industries Ltd asbestos litigation in the US

  1. "Asbestos kills golden goose", The Australian, 19 February 2005, page 28, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Rodney Adler, former HIH director, pleads guilty to four criminal charges

  1. "Adler faces up to 20 years jail over collapse that changed corporate Australia", Across the Board, 22 February 2005, page 2, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. ABC Radio Sydney, The Morning Program, 17 February 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  3. Radio 2CC Canberra, The Breakfast Program, 17 February 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  4. ABC TV, The 7.30 Report Program, 16 February 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  5. ABC Radio National, The PM Program, 16 February 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

ASIC's first successful insider trading civil litigation

  1. "Big penalties for two insider traders", The Australian Financial Review, 16 February 2005, page 9, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Law reform following the Special Commission of Inquiry into James Hardie Industries

  1. "Reform rush would be unwise", The Australian Financial Review, 10 February 2005, page 63, article written by Professor Ian Ramsay

John Elliott declared bankrupt

  1. ABC Radio National, The Law Report Program, 8 February 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Gunns Ltd litigation against environmental activists

  1. "Pulp fiction silences critics", The Australian Financial Review, 2 March 2005, page 61, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay
  2. The Sunday Tasmanian, 6 February 2005, page 10, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Corporate political donations

  1. Sky TV, The Business Report Program, 1 February 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

James Hardie Industries Ltd faces additional compensation claims from asbestos victims in the Asia Pacific region

  1. Sky TV, The Business Report Program, 27 January 2005, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Book-builds for IPOs

  1. "The unequal investor", The Australian Financial Review, 22 January 2005, page 21, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Responsibility of CEOs for financial reports

  1. "Survey faults CEOs on reporting rules", The Australian Financial Review, 18 January 2005, page 6, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Developments at National Australia Bank since the problems of 2004

  1. "Kraehe takes war one battle at a time", The Australian Financial Review, 13 January 2005, page 36, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay

Social responsibility and directors' duties

  1. "Time to take a longer-term view", The Australian Financial Review, 11 January 2005, page 35, interview with Professor Ian Ramsay