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.
Israel’s killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and six World Central Kitchen colleagues in Gaza on 1 April has brought home to Australia’s government and broader community the reality of Netanyahu’s indiscriminate, plausibly genocidal sla
Today is Cash Out Tuesday, when Aussies are urged to withdraw some cash from a bank, ATM or EFTPOS retailer to send a message to bankers that we don’t want their cashless economy.