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Fact file: The Greek debt crisis explained
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Greece's debt woes have been a longstanding problem, but the situation escalated over the European summer, as the country looked likely to default on its loans.
After a record 17 hour Euro Summit meeting an agreement was reached on a third Greek bailout to avoid default, and in the short term the situation appears to have stabilised.
But what does it all mean, and how did we get here?
ABC Fact Check takes a look.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, world-politics, greece
Fast facts
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- The rate of Indigenous young people in detention or under community supervision in 2013-14 was 189 per 10,000, substantially higher than the rate of non-indigenous young people of 13 per 10,000.
- Under the Citizenship Act of 1948, Australians with dual citizenship who serve in the armed forces of a country at war with Australia cease to be Australian citizens from the time their war service begins.
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