CBA chief Ian Narev: The bank said it would lower standard variable interest rates for mortgages by 0.13 percentage points.

Ian Narev takes the fight to Labor

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has used Twitter to defend last week's decision not to pass on in full the official interest rate cut, saying the bank was balancing the interests of depositors, borrowers and shareholders.

Census website attacked by hackers

The head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, David Kalisch, has said Tuesday's night census was the subject of a cyber attack.