Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report – 1979 Financial Statements Aggregate Balance Sheet
As at 30 June 1979
| Liabilities | 1979 $'000 |
1978 $'000 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital | 49,428 | 49,428 | |
| Reserves | 1,904,097 | 1,139,839 | |
| Australian notes on issue | 4,113,253 | 3,688,136 | |
| Deposits by— | |||
| Trading banks—Statutory Reserve Deposits | 1,115,504 | 726,739 | |
| —Term and Farm Development Loan Funds | 15,709 | 5,248 | |
| —Other | 5,339 | 5,493 | |
| Savings banks | 815,719 | 1,122,649 | |
| Overseas governments and institutions (Note 7) | 501,933 | 611,282 | |
| Governments and government instrumentalities | |||
| —Commonwealth | 1,170,138 | 806,152 | |
| —State | 82,118 | 108,931 | |
| Other (Note 7) | 28,448 | 26,558 | |
| Special Reserve—International Monetary Fund special drawing rights (Note 8) | 321,302 | 218,271 | |
| Other liabilities (Note 9) | 123,552 | 170,075 | |
| Total | 10,246,540 | 8,678,801 | |