National Innovation and Science Agenda – Improving bankruptcy and insolvency laws

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Consultation Type
Proposals Paper

Key Documents

As part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, the Government committed to releasing a proposals paper on measures to improve Australia’s bankruptcy and insolvency laws by making changes to the default bankruptcy period, introducing a safe harbour for directors, and changing the operation of ‘ipso facto’ clauses.

Submissions

87 submissions were received for this consultation, including 5 confidential submissions.

Alexander David Clark - pdf 83.91 KB
Arnold Bloch Leibler - pdf 437.05 KB
Arnold Bloch Leibler - rtf 14.76 MB
Ashurst Australia - pdf 320.43 KB
Assaf Farid - pdf 96.41 KB
ASX - pdf 137.79 KB
Auckram Brian - pdf 126.87 KB
Auckram Brian - rtf 129.38 KB
Australian Bankers Association - pdf 259.58 KB
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - rtf 417.18 KB
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - pdf 288.01 KB
Australian Finance Conference - pdf 154.09 KB
Australian Financial Markets Association - pdf 115.51 KB
Australian Institute of Company Directors - pdf 345.4 KB
Australian Institute of Credit Management - pdf 519.24 KB
Australian Institute of Credit Management - rtf 7.72 MB
Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Limited - pdf 111.78 KB
Australian Restructing Insolvency and Turnaround Association - pdf 540.76 KB
Australian Securitisation Forum - pdf 197.12 KB
Australian Shareholders Association - pdf 412.19 KB
Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman - pdf 2.04 MB
Bentleigh Bayside Community Health - pdf 174.56 KB
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand - pdf 222.34 KB
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand - rtf 7.06 MB
CharterLaw Legal Pty Limited - pdf 145.06 KB
Consumer Action Law Centre - pdf 210.85 KB
CPA Australia - pdf 202.83 KB
CPA Australia - rtf 197.14 KB
Credit Corp Group - pdf 72.77 KB
Credit Corp Group - rtf 412.22 KB
Customer Owned Banking Association - pdf 167.9 KB
Department of Employment - pdf 815.8 KB
DibbsBarker - pdf 169.96 KB
DibbsBarker - docx 579.8 KB
Ferrier Hodgson - pdf 10.33 MB
Financial Counselling Australia - pdf 1.24 MB
Financial Counselling Australia - rtf 1.3 MB
Financial Rights Legal Centre - pdf 340.53 KB
Fox Symes - pdf 399.94 KB
Fox Symes - rtf 98.5 KB
Governance Institute of Australia - pdf 228.31 KB
Green Geoff - pdf 282.14 KB
Green Geoff - rtf 546.79 KB
Griffith University - pdf 86.2 KB
Griffith University - rtf 115.28 KB
Hargovan Anil - pdf 718.98 KB
Henry Davis York - pdf 2.1 MB
Herbert Smith Freehills - pdf 3.71 MB
Jones Day - pdf 2.74 MB
Justice Connect - pdf 142.89 KB
King Wood Mallesons - pdf 2.1 MB
Korda Mentha - pdf 66.56 KB
Law Council of Australia - pdf 284.98 KB
Lhuede Mark-1 - pdf 603.6 KB
Lhuede Mark-2 - pdf 83.46 KB
Lhuede Mark-3 - pdf 309.84 KB
Master Builders Australia - pdf 1.16 MB
McGrath Nicol - pdf 243.81 KB
Minter Ellison - pdf 675.24 KB
Narrow Road Capital - pdf 322.32 KB
Office of the NSW Small Business Commissioner - pdf 120.4 KB
Office of the NSW Small Business Commissioner - rtf 28.38 MB
Opportune NFP Limited - pdf 1.13 MB
Opportune NFP Limited - rtf 14.17 MB
Penelope Pengilly - pdf 1.18 MB
PIPA and Bond University - pdf 865.65 KB
PIPA and Bond University - rtf 4.72 MB
Property Council of Australia - pdf 397.17 KB
PwC - pdf 213.43 KB
Queensland University of Technology - pdf 382.5 KB
SRMC Limited and Credit Counsellors Australia - pdf 379.36 KB
Steele Stacey - pdf 303.37 KB
SV Partners Pty Ltd - pdf 5.04 MB
The Law Society of New South Wales - pdf 3.09 MB
The University of Melbourne - pdf 170.57 KB
Turnaround Management Association Australia - pdf 234.63 KB
Tyrone Corp Pty Ltd - pdf 344.1 KB
UCL Faculty of Laws - pdf 88.97 KB
Veda - pdf 612.22 KB
Viva Energy Australia - pdf 802.62 KB
William Buck - pdf 212.27 KB
Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants - pdf 364.17 KB