Implications of financial advice reforms, with particular reference to:

1. the current level of consumer protections;
2. the role of, and oversight by, regulatory agencies in preventing the provision of unethical and misleading financial advice;
3. whether existing mechanisms are appropriate in any compensation process relating to unethical or misleading financial advice and instances where these mechanisms may have failed;
4. mechanisms, including a centralised register, that would ensure financial planners found to have breached any law or professional standards in their employment are transparent, for both the sector and consumers;
5. how financial services providers and companies have responded to misconduct in the industry;
6. other regulatory or legislative reforms that would prevent misconduct;
7. whether Australia's corporate whistleblower framework needs to be strengthened, both as it applies to whistleblowers in the financial services sector and whistleblowers in the corporate sector more generally; and
8. any related matters.