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Alexander Downer, the former Australian High Commissioner to the UK, said Australia is currently preoccupied with issues like the coronavirus pandemic and would not hold a referendum about becoming a republic. He said such vote could take place when the Monarch dies as she enjoys “huge admiration” from the Australian public.
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Lex Greensill, Sanjeev Gupta, whoâd have guessed!
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Quite easily the most remarkable part of Greensill Capitalâs collapse is that it took this long. For years
Lex Greensill was warmly lit by newspaper profiles depicting the boy from Bundaberg ingeniously subverting the gravity of supply chain finance. It somehow failed to register that Babylonian traders used invoice factoring before Hammurabi had even built the walls around them.
Besides its spurious exceptionalism, the most suspect element of Greensill Capital was its entwinement with
Sanjeev Guptaâs equally irregular empire. It always looked like Greensill was assuming an extraordinary level of risk as primary lender â in effect â to a roll-up of industrial junk assets.