The government should direct the Auditor-General to conduct an independent audit of Australia’s Big Four banks, in light of the collapsing property bubble to which the major banks are massively exposed.
Treasury has now joined the central bank and bank regulator in urging the private banks to reopen the floodgates on mortgage lending to avert a housing bubble crash.
The REIA's figures, from a December 2007 survey, follow a JP Morgan/Fujitsu Consulting Mortgage Industry report which forecast 300,000 mortgage foreclosures across Australia this year.
