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What to do to grinning do-gooders

21 September 2019

9:00 AM

21 September 2019

9:00 AM

In the 1860s, Australian colonies adopted, virtually unaltered, the English Companies Act 1862. Despite initial distrust of this new corporate framework, by 1885 new company registrations had begun to increase rapidly, sparking a wave of economic growth.

A substantial part of the reason lay in the strength of the limited liability model. 

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