From Kevin Rudd’s witness statement yesterday, Rudd recalled the fateful post-Lehman weekend meeting of the Strategic Budget and Planning Committee of Cabinet:
“Cabinet was informed that unless the Government moved immediately to provide a Government guarantee for every Australian’s bank account, there was a real prospect of a run on the banks, as had occurred abroad.”
“We were also advised that the Government also needed to provide a guarantee for the inter-bank lending requirements of Australia’s private banks because global credit markets had already frozen.”
Is that insolvent enough for ya?
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