A new blockchain prototype has the potential to boost sustainable development while enabling investment opportunities for landowners, environmental groups, developers and government, following a collaboration between the Commonwealth Bank and South Australia’s BioDiversity Solutions Australia (BDS).

The head of Australia’s competition regulatory authority, Rod Sims, says disruption and dislocation in media markets - and a regulatory imbalance between traditional media and digital platforms - should concern all Australians.

Australians are expected to suffer record losses to scammers exceeding $532 million by the end of this year, surpassing half a billion dollars for the first time, according to the latest Scamwatch report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).