Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers gave Bendigo Bank CEO Richard Fennell a green light to close 38 branches and agencies by their failure to respond to the Senate report on regional bank closures. Twenty-two of those branches and agencies, including the Queenstown Ta...

Bendigo Bank is closing the last genuine banking services in 22 towns—the biggest pull-out of banking services at once in recent decades. The most shocking planned closure is the branch in Queenstown, which is the last bank on the entire west coast of Tasmania. If this closure goes ahead in ...

To further people’s understanding of the importance of re-establishing a public bank in Australia, the Citizens Party’s Elisa Barwick has interviewed American public bank expert Ellen Brown on the Bank of North Dakota for the latest episode of Citizens Insight. Click here to watch Citizens In...

Make a submission to the consultation by 15 August, with the message that the solution to the cash distribution crisis is an Australia Post bank which takes over cash distribution for all of Australia—see details below.  The fight to save cash in Australia is coming to a head, with the g...

This release was first published as an article in the 30 July 2025 Australian Alert Service. Fourteen months after the Senate released a powerful report recommending action against regional bank closures, it is the Citizens Party which is leading the fight for Parliament to follow through on the ...

Call and/or email Senators in your state TONIGHT and TOMORROW MORNING to demand they support the motion for AUKUS inquiry that goes to a Senate vote on Thursday—see details below. Would reasonable Australians agree that a contract between three parties in which: one party (the receiver) pays...

As of September the 1,800 residents of Queenstown on Tasmania’s west coast will have to drive two and a half hours over precarious mountain roads susceptible to dangers like black ice just to visit a bank. Bendigo Bank is closing not just the last bank in Queenstown, but the last bank on ...

Call or email your federal MP to demand they support a parliamentary inquiry into the AUKUS partnership and $368 billion submarine deal. AUKUS is the retro security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, hence the acronym, cooked up between then-Australian Prime M...

Liberal Simon Birmingham’s move from bank protector in government to replacing Labor’s Anna Bligh as chief bank lobbyist tells you everything there is to know about who’s in charge in Australia. A year after the Senate finished its inquiry into regional bank closures, in response to which t...

This week, Prime Minister Anthony “All the way with USA” Albanese endorsed Donald Trump’s illegal, immoral, and unprovoked military attack on Iran, even though it was against international law, the US constitution, the Trump administration’s own intelligence, and Trump’s promise to US vote...