House debates Questions without Notice

Foreign Debt

Thursday, 11 May 2006 House of Representatives

Peter Costello

Peter Costello Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer

2:14 pm

As a consequence of that, every dollar that has been borrowed overseas is owned by the private sector. In fact, if you break it down, 80 per cent of the foreign borrowings of Australia are held by the commercial banks—that is, foreign debt is held by Westpac, the National Australia Bank, ANZ and the Commonwealth Bank.

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