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H. C. Coombs is the only governor to have headed both the Commonwealth Bank and the Reserve Bank of Australia. The longest-serving governor, if his periods of service to both the Commonwealth Bank and the Reserve Bank of Australia are included, is H. C. Coombs, who served nineteen years and six months combined. [9]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (RBA), or simply Ritchie Bros., [1] is a publicly traded company legally domiciled in Canada with headquarters in Westchester, Illinois. Its common shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange .
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority. It has had this role since 14 January 1960, when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank. [3]
Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, 2007 Greenly Island; a distant view taken from the sea (circa 1903) (State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/1/120) Chinamans Hat Island as viewed from the nearby coastline View of Pearson Island from its south end circa 1914 (State Library of South Australia PRG-280-1-12-263)
Land is owned in Canada by governments, Indigenous groups, corporations, and individuals. Canada is the second-largest country in the world by area; with 9,093,507 km 2 (3,511,023 sq mi) of land. [ citation needed ]
The Arrowsmith River in Western Australia was named by Sir George Grey after Arrowsmith, who later produced the maps for the published journals of Grey's two Western Australian expeditions. [7] In 1863 he received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, which was what the Geographical Society of London was known as after gaining the ...
Michele Bullock (born 1962/1963) is an Australian economist who is currently governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). She commenced as governor on 18 September 2023, and is the first woman to hold the role. [1]
The bank expanded during this period, and in just five years it opened hundreds of branches throughout Australia and in 1951 it established a branch in the Solomon Islands. In 1958 and 1959, there was a controversy concerning the dual functions of the organization, operating as the central bank on the one hand and a commercial bank on the other.