A sense of complacency, a lack of intellectual curiosity, a failure to think about the bigger picture, a pursuit of consensus lessening constructive criticism. These are some of the findings in the Australian Prudential Regulatory Agency report into the Commonwealth Bank. It concludes that CBAs continued financial success dulled the senses of the institution. Its management understood the financial risks, but not the non-financial risks, facing the company.

While were on the subject of finance the budget has attracted a wealth of commentary on Pearls and Irritations. John Falzon, Michael Keating, Giles Parkinson, Ranald MacDonald, Michael Pascoe, Ross Gittins, Ian McAuley and Mungo MacCallum have all contributed. Such is our obsession with fiscal figures that the 1000 pages of budget documentation are almost all about money. But what is money? On the ABCs Minefield there is a rich discussion about money what it is, what it isnt, how its socially useful, and the danger of believing that money has value in itself.

Something as distant from the budget as possible Bach in Japan, Bach in Hermannsburg. On the ABCs Spirit of Things Noel Debien is engaged in conversation with Masaaki Suziki, director of the Bach Collegium of Japan, and Morris and Barbara Stewart who have taken the Aboriginal womens choir to Germany. Hear about Christianity in Japan, the Hermannsburger Missions Gesellschaft, and the adaptation of German liturgical music in different cultures. It ends with a promo for the film The Song Keepers.

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Saturday Extra:http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/

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It’s a neoliberal budget when we no longer believe in neoliberalism.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/11/its-the-neoliberal-budget-when-we-no-longer-believe-in-neoliberalism?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Gmail