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Westpac cooks another set of numbers

Joe AstonColumnist

Feb 23, 2022 – 8.06pm

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In the past five years, Westpac Banking Corporation has richly earned itself a sparkling reputation for corporate social irresponsibility.

We’re not really even referring to the banking of international paedophiles, which cost chairman Lindsay Maxsted and chief executive Brian Hartzer their jobs in November 2019.

Joe Aston helmed The Australian Financial Review's Rear Window column from 2012 to 2023. Connect with Joe on Facebook and Twitter.

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