Burning down the house: Bendigo Bank blacklists towns that built it

Burning down the house: Bendigo Bank blacklists towns that built it

Bendigo Bank, founded on the spoils of gold mining, now refuses home loans in dozens of mining towns — including the very communities that made its existence possible.

Burning down the house I Australian Rural & Regional News

Bendigo Bank torches regional development with selective blacklist based on mining Queenstown, under threat from bushfires in March, is now fighting a battle to save its last bank. Photo: The Regional Just like the fictional Tasmanian town of Mystery Bay, a star in its own right in the hit ABC TV series Bay of Fires, Queenstown, where much of the show was filmed, is being held back by mysterious forces. Locals have suspected for some time that t…