Australia news live: Optus breach a ‘wakeup call’, minister says, as telco contacts 14,900 customers with exposed Medicare ID

Around 37,000 Medicare numbers were stolen in the cyberattack – while 22,000 of those are expired, almost 15,000 are active. Follow the day’s news live

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AGL expected to bring closure of Loy Yang A power station forward a decade

Australia’s biggest electricity generator, AGL Energy, will shortly release its strategy update to the market.

What a week for energy policy, it does not get bigger than this.