A 45-YEAR-OLD woman has been killed in Sydney's west when the car she was driving crashed at Hassall Grove.
Police say the woman was driving along Luxford Road about 12.50am (AEDT) on Sunday when her car hit the gutter, before crashing through the guard rail and hitting an embankment.
Investigations are continuing and police will prepare a report for the coroner.
FIRE alerts ranging from severe to extreme for much of Western Australia have prompted total fire bans in many areas, including parts of the Goldfields-Midlands region.
With temperatures set to soar again on Monday, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) has also issued a ban for parts of the Midwest Gascoyne region.
The DFES warned residents in the Central Wheatbelt and inland parts of the Great Southern and Central West they would be facing extreme fire danger, while those in the Gascoyne, Eucla, Pilbara, coastal parts of the Great Southern and the Upper Great Southern are facing severe fire danger.
On Sunday an emergency warning was downgraded to an advice alert for a bushfire four kilometres east of Toodyay.
The DFES said the blaze was contained and under control.
AUSTRALIA'S biggest business lender National Australia Bank has fallen further behind its big four rivals in business customer satisfaction.
NAB had an average satisfaction rating of 6.9 out of ten in November, well behind Commonwealth Bank (7.5), Westpac (7.4) and ANZ (7.3).
According to the monthly DBM Consultants' Business Financial Services Monitor, NAB's satisfaction rating went backwards in November, while ANZ, which had lagged alongside it for most of the past two years, continued to pull ahead.
DBM director Maria Claridad said ANZ achieved its highest ever average score in November and was well above the 6.9 it scored in April this year.
"What ANZ has been able to achieve in the past six months is great for their business and it has closed the gap on the two major banks that were well ahead of it,' she said.
She said the challenge now was for ANZ to sustain or improve on the customer satisfaction level.
The BFSM, which is based on interviews with 20,000 businesses a year, also showed the Commonwealth was the most popular bank among large and micro businesses, while Westpac lead among small and medium sized companies.
A HUNDRED days on from the federal election, Prime Minister Tony Abbott believes voters will be confident they made the right choice.
Monday marks 100 days since the September 7 election.
"I'm very satisfied that what we've demonstrated over the last 100 days is a government which is competent and trustworthy," Mr Abbott said.
He conceded there was more to do to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat and criticised Labor for continuing to block the carbon and mining tax repeals in the Senate.
Mr Abbott also appears to have laid the groundwork for the government to back away from its promise to return the budget to surplus at least as quickly as Labor's pledged 2016/17.
A mid-year budget statement will be released on Tuesday.
Labor says the new government's first 100 days have been characterised by "nasty surprises and pathetic excuses".
Mr Abbott says he's sure many people will think there are things he could have done better.
But he's not into selfies or self-assessment.
