摘要：In 2008, the Australian government introduced a guarantee of bank deposits.However, in 1945 the Curtin–Chifley government had already introduced whatit believed was an explicit bank deposit guarantee. Using archival material,this paper shows how it was understood to be a guarantee by the cabinet,Labor parliamentarians, and the Commonwealth Bank. The guaranteewas an important yet almost entirely forgotten part of the Curtin–Chifleygovernment’s social reform program. This paper uncovers the origins of theperception of a deposit guarantee in this forgotten 1945 debate, the attemptsby policymakers and the Commonwealth Bank to roll back those perceptionsin subsequent decades, and the Rudd government’s reversion to an explicitguarantee scheme in 2008.
