A Telstra payment system outage left thousands of customers unable to use EFTPOS terminals at a range of retailers, with many electronic banking systems, such as ATMs, also affected.

A new report estimates Australians could save up to $270 a year on their electricity bills, if the Federal Government introduced policy to reserve gas for the domestic market.

Eighty-two per cent of tourists to WA want an Aboriginal cultural experience when they visit, but only 26 per cent get what they want.

Australians are getting "extremely poor value" on their consumer credit insurance, with an average return of as little as 11 cents in the dollar, according to ASIC's scathing report on the industry.

A social-media clip showing cabling suspended across two trees on a suburban Sydney street has gone viral — but the NBN says the gaffe was inherited from Telstra, and has likely been that way since 2015.