There’s always a giant dollop of theatre about the parliamentary hearings that Australia’s big bank chief executives are dragged in front of twice a year. After all, politicians are always playing to an audience of some type – the media, their constituents, their colleagues.
But the thrust of the politicians’ questions to ANZ chief executive Nuno Matos, Westpac’s Anthony Miller, NAB boss Andrew Irvine and Commonwealth Bank’s Matt Comyn across Thursday and Friday does give us some insight into what is top of mind for voters.
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