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Interest rate announcement - 12 August 2022. Bank Australia will increase variable home loan and commercial variable rates in response the RBA’s recent decision to raise the official cash rate. From 18 August 2022, interest rates will increase by 0.50% for variable rate owner-occupier and investor loans, while commercial variable rate loans will also increase by 0.50%. For existing home loan customers, repayment changes will be effective from 1 October 2022. Read more here.
Our Community Customer Grants are for our community customers – organisations not individuals – who are creating change in areas that are important to our customers. In 2022, our community customers had the opportunity to apply for grants up to $20,000.
Applications for our 2022 Community Customer Grants program are now closed.
Our Community Customer Grants program runs annually. Our next grant round will open March 2023. The exact date will be announced early next year.
Our grant program is open to existing community customers who have held a Bank Australia account for at least 1 year at 30 June every funding year. To be eligible in our 2023 round, customers need to have opened a Bank Australia account or loan on or before 30 June 2022.
They must be an organisation, such as a not for profit, community, school, volunteer or social enterprise with an ABN. Deductible gift recipient status is not required.
Above: The Great Ocean Road, VIC
Check out the full list of recipients, and the stories behind some of our previous customer grant recipients.