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Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery

  • Written by Nicole Sutton, Lecturer in Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discoveryThe first kangaroo-leather bound ledgers of what became Westpac, photographed in the Westpac archives.Westpac archives, Author provided

One of Australia’s biggest banks, currently under scrutiny at the royal commission, has a long history.

The Bank of New South Wales, which later became Westpac, was established in 1817 under a charter of...

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