Ann: Westpac announces $3.5 billion off-market share buy-back, page-358

To Red Dirt Dan

So, the appalling recent performance of this company is due to lazy Australians putting their hands out and not doing anything, aided and abetted by unnamed useless government bodies. Further, an otherwise brilliant performance is not being recognised by the pesky, ignorant market, and, after achieving a breathtaking 13% drop in the last month (while the sector generally has actually gained 3 - 5 %), we can expect it to trade sideways "for some time", as long as nothing else goes wrong.

Red Dirt, if you are the best salesman we have, we badly need something else.