The rating increased from Aa2 to Aa1,one below Aaa,which the state lost in 2014.
Lenders look to your credit report to determine your attractiveness as a customer,so enhancing your score improves access and costs for future loans.
Four of the five firms granted access to the names and addresses of millions of Australian voters run massive digital marketing operations.
The confidential electoral roll data of more than 16 million Australians is being used by buy-now-pay-later providers,debt collectors,marketing giants and betting agencies.
The Australian Human Rights Commission is conducting a major project into how to protect human rights in a new era of technological development.
Comprehensive credit reporting is finally under way with the big banks starting to share their customers’ data with credit agencies,so good behaviour now counts towards credit scores.
Payday lenders and Afterpay will be the subject of a new Senate inquiry into parts of the finance sector that have escaped the Hayne royal commission.
Australia’s largest consumer credit reporting agency,Equifax,has joined the finance sector's disgrace list after being hit with a $3.5 million fine for misleading,deceptive and unconscionable conduct.
A global credit rating agency says decentralisation does not pose a big risk to the ACT's economy at present.
Personal finance expert Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon answers your questions.
Widespread ignorance of how credit scores work leaves borrowers vulnerable to poor credit scores.