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Will we ever finish paying for the GFC?

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:January 30, 2021
Post category:Greg Ray's Writing Miscellaneous
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When will we be finished paying for the Global Financial Crisis? Or, more to the point, when will our children and their children be finished paying? I’m not sure what…

Hunter Street, Newcastle, in the 1920s. The Bank of Australasia is at the right-hand edge of the photo.

No girls, people with disabilities or sons of miners need apply: bad old days of banking in NSW

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:April 8, 2019
Post category:History Miscellaneous Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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During World War 1, when the Newcastle branch of the Bank of Australasia was struggling to recruit the staff it needed to run its business, the organisation still couldn't see…

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