Australian banks are aggressively encouraging customers to take on more debt regardless of their ability to pay it back, a new survey by The Australia Institute has found. The survey results, published in Money and Power: The case for better regulation in banking, reveal the extraordinary extent to which Australian banks promote consumer debt through unsolicited offers for new credit cards, personal loans or increased credit-card limits.

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