Fax attack flop
NZPA-AAP Melbourne The first day of a proposed end-of-financial-year “fax attack” by the Interest Rate Blockade Group was an abject failure, according to bank spokesmen. A plan to swamp governments, banks and big business with irate messages to block up their facsimile machines was proposed by Mr Simon Taylor, the convener of the group, which is based in Sydney and Melbourne. But a National Australia Bank spokesman said it was business as usual yesterday, with protest faxes not eventuating. The response indicated protest groups were not getting *the support they had hoped for. “People realise that the banks are merely victims of tight government monetary policy,” he said. A spokesman for the Interest Rate Blockade Group was not available for comment.
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