What we learned today, Friday 29 September
We will wrap up the live blog here for the night.
Here’s a recap of what made the news:
The long-awaited disability royal commission report was released in 13 volumes, comprising 5,000 pages and 222 recommendations, including the creation of a disability rights act. The government said it would not be responding to any specific findings or recommendations, but would undertake a process to consider the report in whole, including with a new taskforce.
The defence minister, Richard Marles, announced that the Taipan helicopters would be permanently grounded after a fatal crash in July.
The Tasmanian attorney general, Elise Archer, resigned from cabinet and the parliament after the premier, Jeremy Rockliff, asked for her resignation amid bullying allegations.
Extinction Rebellion protesters glued themselves to the road to disrupt the AFL grand final parade in Melbourne.
White House officials said they were disappointed that the Solomon Islands prime minister declined to attend a summit between the US president, Joe Biden, and Pacific leaders in Washington.
Until tomorrow, enjoy your evening.
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ANZ banking services restored after outage
ANZ banking services were restored around 5pm after an almost four-hour outage across the country.
The bank’s spokesperson said in a statement that a software issue affected a number of its core systems from 1.37pm AEST, which made the ANZ app, internet banking, credit and debit card transactions, ATMs, contact centres and branch services stop working.
The spokesperson said by 5pm most services were back online but there is some instability around Visa credit card transactions, and recommended customers use cash or debit cards until the issue is resolved.
The spokesperson said:
We apologise for any disruption or inconvenience caused to our customers.
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