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    13 Oct. 2017—The CEC has launched a new petition to the Commonwealth Parliament, calling for immediate legislation to enact a Glass-Steagall-style banking separation in Australia and a national bank, to protect deposits and essential banking services from looming financial shocks.

    This petition is a Paper Petition, not an E-Petition. We have organisers and activists around Australia collecting signatures every day. It will be sent to the House Of Representatives Petition Committee in the heat of our campaign to get Glass-Steagall legislation enacted.

    Click here to download a PDF copy of the petition to print and collect signatures on.

    Or, sign the electronic version below and we will mail you a hard copy.

    Global crash coming—Australia needs Glass-Steagall and a National Bank

    TO THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

    This petition of the Citizens Electoral Council draws to the attention of the House that the world is plunging into a new, more severe financial crisis than that of 2008. Continued speculation by Too-Big-To-Fail banks has driven corporate, household and mortgage debt to record highs in many countries, including Australia. The global bubble in toxic derivatives is now an estimated US$1,200 trillion—$36 trillion in Australia. When interest rates rise, there will be mass corporate defaults, as the IMF has warned, and mortgage failures. The popping of Australia's property bubble will devastate the Big Four banks; mortgages comprise more than 60 per cent of their lending, the highest rate in the world. This risk has built up under the supervision of APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority), which is funded by the banks and protects their predatory practices and even outright criminality, including drug- and terrorism-related money laundering.

    We therefore ask the House to immediately legislate to disband APRA, and replace it with:

    1) strict separation of commercial banking from investment banking and all other financial services, modelled on the USA’s successful Glass-Steagall Act 1933, to protect deposits and core banking services;

    2) a publicly owned and controlled national bank to regulate the private banks, and extend credit for public investment in essential infrastructure and productive industries, as the original Commonwealth Bank did with great success under the wartime Curtin-Chifley governments.

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Click here to find out more about Glass-Steagall.

Click here to read the article Why Australia urgently needs a Glass-Steagall banking separation (HTML)
(Click here for the PDF version)

Click here to read the article Why Australia urgently needs a national bank (HTML)
(Click here for the PDF version)

Video message from CEC Leader Craig Isherwood:
Join us in mobilising for Glass-Steagall! (2.41 mins)


Click here to read the CEC's submission to the 2014 Financial System Inquiry.

Craig Isherwood: Urgent Appeal to Representatives and Senators of the U.S. Congress