Live news: 'Hang up the phone': O'Neil issues chilling scam alert in wake of Crowdstrike outage
Cybersecurity Minister Clare O’Neil warns Australians 'to be really cautious', saying some people have already been the target of unknown contacts pretending to be from CrowdStrike or Microsoft.
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Coalition vow to better bottom line
The Coalition’s pre-election costings will project a $40bn reduction in gross debt by 2028-29, as it proposes to slash Labor’s off-budget investment vehicles and dump plans for student relief.
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Rate cut ‘pending’ as inflation in target
Inflation has slipped back into the Reserve Bank’s target range, all but ensuring another interest rate cut in May and giving Labor a boost in the dying days of the election.
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