It was a complicated, galling, and gasp-inducing year at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.
Daniel Ziffer covered the Hayne royal commission for ABC radio, TV, and online. He was formerly the long-time senior producer of 'Mornings with Jon Faine', at ABC Radio Melbourne, and has worked on air and in production at Macquarie Radio, as a freelance foreign correspondent based in New York City, a journalist at The Age, and as a magazine editor.
"In a rollicking and witty blow-by-blow account of his year
covering the Hayne Royal Commission for the ABC, Ziffer attends to
the more grotesque malpractices unearthed by the Royal
Commission...Drawing heavily on hearing transcripts, Ziffer
delights in replaying the squirming, verbal contortions of
witnesses under the inscrutable questioning of Hayne and the
counsels assisting."
--Ben Huf, Australian Book Review "Daniel Ziffer doesn't suffer
from inertia. His book, A Wunch of Bankers, is a supercharged
flight through the absurdity of the year he spent reporting from
the commission for ABCTV."
--Peter Martin, The Saturday Age "Wucking funderful."
--Wil Anderson "A devilish peek into the barren soul of the banking
industry."
--Sammy J "[A] rollicking blow-by-blow of the Hayne Royal
Commission into banking...Ziffer's doom, gloom and snark sums up
our twenty-first century tastes perfectly. Enjoy this real-life
Dickensian nightmare, and despair!"
--Chris Dite, Readings "After covering last year's banking royal
commission, I never thought I'd want to read another word about it,
but reading this book is like being next to the naughty schoolboy.
The result is hugely entertaining but also affecting as Melbourne
journalist Daniel Ziffer's light touch reminds us this was about
normal people who were impacted by bank wrongdoing. The book works
brilliantly as a guided tour through the sordid details of the
royal commission as he embraces the pettiness and absurdity of the
excuse making of many of the major players. Where the banks and
other financial institutions were so tone deaf, Ziffer's ear is
pitch perfect, showing warmth and respect to those who were done
over as well as piquing the phoniness of excuses by the
institutions. Nothing is sacred--from the extremes of corporate
lies and cover-ups to laughing at pompous CEO signatures. Ziffer's
book has what the banking system was shown to lack--a moral compass
and real heart."
--Jeff Whaley, Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin
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