Battle of the Banks : How ad men, barristers and bankers ended Ben Chifley’s boldest plan
by
Bob Crawshaw
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1923267272
ISBN-13
9781923267275
Publisher
Australian Scholarly Publishing
Imprint
Australian Scholarly Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 2025
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
376 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Australasian & Pacific historyAustralasian and Pacific history
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A Labor Government’s campaign to nationalise the Australian banking system in the 1950s caused a great political storm, fully examined and well told in this book.
After the Second World War, the Australian Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley embarked on a radical plan to replace the banking system with a single national bank, igniting a broad wave of resistance. The banking industry launched media campaigns, legal challenges and coast-to-coast protests to defeat the move. Opposition Leader Robert Menzies and the new Liberal Party opposed the takeover, harnessing the fury over bank nationalisation to win the first in a series of election triumphs that lasted almost a quarter of a century. This book is the story of the politicians, media magnates, ad men, feminists, community activists and bank clerks who contested the planned changes to Australian banking.
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