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BankWest is owned By HBOS Australia Pty Ltd

HBOS Australia Pty Ltd (HBOS Australia) comprises four diverse financial services companies:

Bank of Western Australia Ltd (BankWest); Capital Finance Australia Limited (Capital Finance); St Andrew's Australia Pty Ltd (St Andrew's); and BOS International (Australia) Ltd (BOS International).

Article re ownership should be reviewed with correct information

www.hbosa.com.au —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.19.158.31 (talk) 02:25, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unhapping banking

124.150.47.203 added a large amount of text about "Unhappybanking". I've reverted it. It was probably added in good faith, but it has several problems:

The additions appear to be unbalanced and non-neutral, as well as giving undue emphasis (in terms of total amount of text for this vs the rest of the article).
There were no specific reference - lots of general claims about coverage, such as "significant media coverage in Australia, with stories on Today Tonight (Seven Network), The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Telegraph, ABC Radio and the West Australian" but no specific citations to specific stories.
The paragraph in the lead section is simply too big for the lead.
It might be WP:Recentism.

Perhaps some mention of the controversy is appropriate, but it needs to be balance, referenced, and shorter. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A large (but different) addition was made about "Unhapping Banking". I have again removed most of it, for the same reasons as before. Given that the group appears to have prompted a senate inquiry, it would appear sufficiently notable to include a mention, so I have done so - in what I think is much more neutral language, with references. Mitch Ames (talk) 04:21, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Four Corners has as story, apparently about or related to this, to be aired tonight, Monday 9 April 2012 on ABC1 (plus repeats, iview). I expect that the transcript will be available later online on the Past Episodes page. Mitch Ames (talk) 04:01, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]