Treasurer Jim Chalmers has committed to dumping the policy for which “old Labor” legends John Curtin and Ben Chifley fought hardest—democratic control of the central bank and the banking system.
Call and email all Senators to tell them to support a Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee inquiry into the regional banking crisis.
The crisis in regional banking services continues to intensify, with three towns set to lose NAB branches this Thursday, 2 February: Warners Bay NSW, Tin Can Bay Qld, and Strathalbyn SA.
Demand the Treasurer intervene with bank CEOs and insist they earn their taxpayer guarantees and subsidies by maintaining branch services in communities.
In the next fortnight, the big banks which gorge themselves on massive profits from taxpayer support will shut down branches in 10 regional towns around Australia.
In two weeks, the moral fibre of Australia’s political and judicial system will be put to its latest test when war crimes whistleblower David McBride is put on what is likely to be a secret trial.
He faces up to 50 years in prison.
This week, the 16th anniversary of the founding of WikiLeaks, is a week of action around the world for WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange.
Assange is rotting in the UK’s Belmarsh Prison, fighting extradition to the USA, just so the Anglo-American war party whose crimes and cover-ups he exposed can make an example of him to anyone else tempted to blow the whistle on their governments’ crimes.
All Australians should support this formal petition to Parliament:
Petition EN4244 - Moratorium on regional bank closures and new inquiry
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