Crime before coal? | The Spectator Australia

The chair of one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains, Mary Sum of the Plate Group, has announced that its 900 venues will no longer serve board members, executives, shareholders or any of the NBA staff, from any of the bank’s 900 branches. The decision, she said, reflects the Plate Group board’s disapproval of the bank’s unsavoury practices as revealed in the recent Royal Commission into Misconduct in the banking industry. 

“The impacts of unethical banking policy have a growing effect on our business, our customers and the communities in which we operate. That’s why we’re taking action,” her statement reads.  

The Plate Group’s decision comes after NAB’s announcement that “NAB will no longer…