Battle of the Banks: How AD Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan by Crawshaw, Bob

Battle of the Banks: How AD Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781923267275)

Vendor: Bob Crawshaw
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Format: Paperback
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Battle of the Banks: How AD Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan by Crawshaw, Bob

Battle of the Banks: How AD Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan

$45.00
Battle of the Banks: How AD Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan by Crawshaw, Bob

Battle of the Banks: How AD Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Bob Crawshaw
ISBN-10: 1923267272
ISBN-13: 9781923267275
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2025
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

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