Working steadily with broad coercive powers, numerous and highly visible royal commissions in Australia, have uncovered shocking examples of corrupted cultures in organisations that must be concentrating the minds of directors everywhere.
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety began hearings in Adelaide last month (just as calls for a recently announced separate royal commission into abuse in the disability sector gathered force) to investigate standards and practices within the sector and ‘any matter reasonably incidental … that [the commissioners] believe is reasonably relevant to the inquiry’.1
The commissioners will submit their final report in April next year.