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Reserve Bank of Australia (1960 - )

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Summary

The Reserve Bank Act 1959 created the Reserve Bank of Australia to carry on the central banking functions of the Commonwealth Bank; other legislation separated the commercial banking and savings banking activities into the newly-created Commonwealth Banking Corporation. The Act took effect from early 1960.

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 1856 - 1865 Moreton Bay Savings Bank
 1861 - 1866 Ipswich Savings Bank
 1862 - 1867 Toowoomba Savings Bank
 1863 - 1908 Post Office Savings Bank of Western Australia
       1863 - 1926 Government Savings Bank of Western Australia
       1865 - 1916 Government Savings Bank of Queensland
       1882 - 1901 Post Office Savings Bank of Tasmania
             1901 - 1913 State Savings Bank of Tasmania
             1907 - 1931 Government Savings Bank of New South Wales
             1916 - 1920 Queensland Government Savings Bank
             1926 - 1931 State Savings Bank of Western Australia
                   1912 - 1960 Commonwealth Bank of Australia [I]
                         1960 - Reserve Bank of Australia

Archival resources

Reserve Bank of Australia Archives

  • Reserve Bank of Australia records; Reserve Bank of Australia Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Cornish, Selwyn, The evolution of central banking in Australia, (Reserve Bank of Australia 50 years on cover), Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, 150 pp. Details
  • Linklater, J, Insider the bank; The role of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the economic, banking and financial system, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1992. Details
  • Schedvin, C.B., In Reserve: central banking in Australia 1945-75, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, New South Wales, 1992. Details

Conference Papers

  • Rawston, G.J., 'Resource Allocation at the Reserve Bank', in Piggott, M and McEwan, C (eds), Australian Society of Archivists, Proceedings of the 1995 Conference, Australian Society of Archivists, Canberra, 1995. Details
  • Stewart, I.A., 'Reserve Bank of Australia archives', in Archives Conference 1979, Papers Presented to the Second Biennial Conference, Australian Society of Archivists, Sydney, May 1979, May 1979, pp. 63-66. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 1 December 1999, Last modified: 3 August 2020