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The life and death of the Australian permanent building societies

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  • Dianne Thomson
  • Malcolm Abbott

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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries permanent building societies have been important providers of housing finance in Australia. Despite their long history Australian building societies have been disappearing at a steady rate since the early 1980s as they have converted into banks or become involved in mergers. The purpose of this paper is to give a background account of the history of Australian building societies and put forward explanations for their past popularity and more recent disappearance from Australian housing finance markets.

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  • Dianne Thomson & Malcolm Abbott, 1998. "The life and death of the Australian permanent building societies," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 73-103.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acbsfi:v:8:y:1998:i:1:p:73-103
    DOI: 10.1080/095852098330594
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