Farmers gagged by big banks hope royal commission will uncover what they’re too scared to say
Australian farmers who have been foreclosed on are hoping the next round of banking royal commission hearings into small business lending, beginning today, will expose the tactics of big banks they claim put them out of business. Their plight was the inspiration for some National Party MPs such as George Christensen to call for a commission of inquiry, which ultimately forced the major banks and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull into agreeing to a royal commission .