The treasurer will host roundtables with banks, investors and philanthropists to try and secure private sector investment for energy, defence and social issues.
Inflation cooled to 4.9 per cent over the 12 months to October, down from the 5.6 per cent growth recorded by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in September.
The Reserve Bank fired off an interest rate hike last month to take out insurance against lingering inflation risks, minutes from a board meeting confirm.
A Senate inquiry into a 12-hour Optus outage that affected millions of Australians has revealed hundreds of triple-zero calls were unable to go through.