• The Loans affair, also called the Khemlani affair, was a political scandal involving the Whitlam government of Australia in 1975 in which it was accused...
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    the loans pertained to "matters of energy", that the Loans Council had not been advised, and that it would be advised only "if and when the loan is made"...
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  • The Māori loan affair (or Hawaiian loans affair) of 1986 and 1987 in New Zealand was an unauthorised attempt by the Department of Māori Affairs (today called...
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    Khemlani. Cairns first became aware of what was to become known as the "Loans Affair" three days after being appointed Treasurer, on 13 December 1974, when...
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    The Reorganisation loan affair (Chinese: 善後大借款; pinyin: Shànhòu dà jièkuǎn) was a series of political incidents in the Republic of China between March...
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    Gough Whitlam (category Australian ministers for Foreign Affairs)
    intermediary in the hope of securing US$4 billion in loans. While the Loans Affair did not result in a loan, according to author and Whitlam speechwriter Graham...
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    the efforts to secure a loan, whether through Khemlani or by other routes, bore fruit, but, as information about the "Loans Affair" trickled out, the government...
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    Senate, and following a series of controversies in 1975, most notably the Loans Affair, the Liberal opposition leader Malcolm Fraser called on the Senate (where...
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  • A no documentation loan (no-doc) or low documentation loan (low-doc) refers to loans that do not require borrowers to provide documentation of their income...
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    best known as the central figure in the "loans affair", which arose from his attempts to secure petrodollar loans from Middle Eastern financiers. His resignation...
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