What we learned, Tuesday 9 December
We’ll leave our live coverage of the news there for today. These were Wednesday’s top stories:
Anthony Albanese said it was “proud day to be Australian” as the social media ban arrived.
Barack Obama’s former chief of staff said the US should follow Australia’s lead on the social media ban.
Apps that were not named in social media ban became the most-downloaded on Apple app store charts.
Queensland’s government introduced a bill that could require ankle bracelets for 10-year-olds on bail.
Westpac customers suffered an outage of digital banking services.
An NSW arson squad found no sign a bushfire had been deliberately lit.
Gina Rinehart’s company’s bid to install a helicopter pad on its new headquarters was blocked by the City of Perth.
Coalition MPs met to thrash out their migration policy.
A report found “obscene” rates of Indigenous children are still being removed from families.
Financial markets are now predicting the RBA will hike interest rates by June.
See you tomorrow.
Updated
Westpac services back online
Westpac has confirmed its online and mobile banking services are back up and running, after hundreds of customers reported outages.
A spokesperson has said:
Our retail and mobile banking services have now been restored, and EFTPOS payments are working as usual. We’re working to resolve any remaining issues affecting our business clients and apologise for the inconvenience.
