AUSTRALIA - Bad debts rattle banking boom

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AUSTRALIA - Bad debts rattle banking boom

Far from escaping the credit crisis, Australian corporates are increasingly struggling to repay their debts, hitting bank balance sheets in the process. Combine this with sizzling inflation and the prospect of further interest rate hikes and the country is suddenly in sight of a slowdown. So how heavily will this damage lenders' appetite for risk, asks Lachlan Colquhoun.

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