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Dan Andrews flags ‘substantive, commonsense announcements’ on Victorian housing
The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, is speaking to Rafael Epstein on ABC Radio Melbourne this morning. He has faced criticism in the past for not appearing on talkback radio, particularly from the veteran radio host Neil Mitchell.
First on the agenda is housing – Andrews is asked if housing got worse under Labor, why should people believe it’ll get better?
Andrews flagged that “substantiative, commonsense announcements” around housing will be announced shortly:
I’m not here today to rule things in or out. The statement [will be] released in due course.
Acknowledging he has been premier for almost nine years, Andrews defended his government and said it’s “a different place today” when it comes to housing. He said you can’t chase 100% agreement on everything when it comes to reform:
If you do that, you’ll get precisely nothing done. You’ve got to find a balance point, you’ve got to be fair, you got to look at all the different angles or different arguments, but we’ve got to get more houses built because only through more houses being built, more supply [do] we get prices down.
Updated at 18.43 EDT22m ago18.26 EDT
Banking Association sees potential for AI to help protect customers from scams
The chief executive officer of the Australian Banking Association, Anna Bligh, is speaking to ABC News Breakfast about whether banks have enough people on their fraud teams to help victims.
She said the ABA is seeing an “explosion” of scams hitting Australians:
[Scams] come to us via our telephone, our emails, our social media platforms. These are not issues over which banks have control, but we need to be seeing banks working with all of those players to improve and to eliminate the ability of scammers to actually get to people in the first place.
… between Australia’s four major banks, they have in their financial fraud teams more people than the entire Australian federal police in every part of Australia.
When asked how AI and deepfakes will change the outlook for scams, Bligh said it has the potential to make it easier for scammers, but also easier for telcos and banks to protect people:
AI is basically trained to look at patterns and so it’s going to make it much easier, in fact, it’s already being used by banks to identify where something unusual is happening on your account.
… So I do think AI and other … new developments [are] going to be certainly in the hands of criminals [and] could be used to make our lives much harder, but in the hands of our banks, our law enforcement…
2023-09-17 17:33:14
Original from www.theguardian.com
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