Did you know that after the Second World War, Prime Minister Ben Chifley proposed replacing Australia’s private banks with a single national bank?
By Christmas 1947, his Labor Government had passed legislation to turn Australia into a ‘one bank town’.
The United Bank Officers’ Association, which preceded the Finance Sector Union, tirelessly organised against the move, and what followed was an industry-wide media campaign, legal challenges and nationwide protests against the Labor government.
Award winning marketer Bob Crawshaw shares this remarkable story in Battle of the Banks, now available from Australian Scholarly Publishing.
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