posted on December 27, 2009 with 5 notes
Australians set new debt record »

Reserve Bank figures show mortgage, credit card and personal loan debts now stand at $1.2 trillion, up 71 per cent from just five years ago and equating to $56,000 for every man, woman and child in the country, News Ltd says.

[…] personal debt now totals 100.4 per cent of Australia’s annual GDP — one of the highest ratios in the developed world.

This is not good.

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