Westpac has sought to pre-empt the recommendations of the Senate inquiry into bank closures in regional Australia by announcing a moratorium on regional branch closures until 2027.
New Zealand’s competition regulator has called on the government to back the public Kiwibank to force competition onto Australia’s profit-gouging Big Four banks.
Andrew Hastie and Tony Abbott are trying to install a candidate in WA who has written a fictional book to scare people about a Chinese invasion of Australia.