A man who broke into the rental home of comedian Hamish Blake and his entrepreneur wife Zoe Foster Blake while they were asleep and stole their luxury car has learned his fate. Daniel Booth broke into the four-bedroom house being rented by the high-profile couple in Woollahra, in Sydney’s glitteringContinue Reading
It’s a total fashion don’t. Carrying cash, identification and debit cards in a wallet has become akin to carrying around old butterscotch candies at the bottom of your purse as teens and early 20-somethings have officially declared wallets atrociously antiquated — or, as Gen Z would say, “cheugy”. “Millennials, apparentlyContinue Reading
Australians are being urged to look out for suspicious credit and debit card charges labelled ‘Jet Frog’ that could precede major fraudulent transactions by criminals. A Sydneysider took to Reddit at the weekend to warn of a suspicious pending transaction they spotted on their online banking statement. It was forContinue Reading
Australia is rapidly heading towards becoming a “cashless society” as banks crack down on withdrawals, close ATMs and branches and ban cash altogether — with one expert predicting physical money will be completely gone by the end of the decade. “I’d say we’ll be functionally cashless by the end ofContinue Reading
A shocking trend among Australian consumers could be the clearest indication yet that a cashless society is only years away. New data by Reserve Bank of Australia has revealed that the number of Australians paying by cash has more than halved since 2019. Only 13 per cent of transactions inContinue Reading
Westpac has updated its cards to make them more accessible for blind and low vision customers. The new designs on credit, debit and prepaid cards have a number or accessibility elements, most notably different notches along the short edge of the card to help distinguish one card from another. TheContinue Reading
Welcome to Sisters In Law, news.com.au’s weekly column solving all of your legal problems. This week, our resident lawyers and real-life sisters Alison and Jillian Barrett from Maurice Blackburn advise about restaurant surcharges. Question: I went to a restaurant over the Easter break and the number of surcharges they addedContinue Reading
There are grim signs that Australians are having to turn to their credit cards to combat the rising cost of living. Credit card debt is now on the rise, according to data released by the Reserve Bank today, with millions added to the books for many Australians. The total creditContinue Reading
A Western Australian man is terrified he has lost his life savings – a whopping $580,000 – after he received two unexpected emails from his bank that the entire amount had been withdrawn and his account closed. Yet Bruce, who did not want his surname used, never authorised any transactionContinue Reading