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It is known as 'the people's bank', 'the community bank' or simply 'the Bendigo'. As Building the Village shows, the Bendigo Bank's sense of social responsibility stretches back to 1858 and its roots on the Bendigo goldfield. Today, 150 years later, the bank's future rests upon the close community relationships it has built up across Australia. Historian Alan Mayne tells the story of the bank's developments, which parallel the building of Australia into one prosperous nation, and required overcoming many hurdles along the way, such as the protracted Federation drought, world wars, and the financial turmoil of the early 1990s.

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Alan Mayne holds a ResearchSA Chair at the University of South Australia, where he is Professor of Social History in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, and the Hawke Research Institute. He holds a PhD (1980) from the Australian National University and worked until 2005 at the University of Melbourne. He has also been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Washington DC, a Senior Fulbright scholar at Boston and Berkeley, and a visiting Professorial Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. His core interests relate to social equity and sustainability.

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