Cash
Why anxious Australians are putting cash back in their wallets
After more than two decades of ditching cash, Australians have started putting $20 and $50 notes back in their wallets.
- Shane Wright
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- Opinion
- Payments
Australians hate surcharges. So why don’t we move to QR codes?
It’s a payment method that has taken off in cash-loving Japan. But here’s why Australians will still pay more to use card.
- Millie Muroi
Businesses warn of price rises from RBA’s surcharge ban
The ban is expected to save Australian consumers $1.6 billion a year in unnecessary fees, but will likely cause a dramatic cutback in the generosity of card points schemes.
- Elias Visontay
Cost crisis: Where your budget is about to be squeezed even harder
Some of the rising costs are obvious – like housing – but others are harder to spot, and could risk putting the country in recession by the end of the year.
- Nina Hendy
- Opinion
- Real life
My love letter to ye olde postie … Will he mind if I email it?
Letter writers and coin collectors of the world unite! Our analogue days are numbered.
- Jo Pybus
Subsidies, sweeteners and price hikes: What changes on January 1
Long-promised changes in force in the new year include protections for cash, passport price hikes, and the arrival of Australia’s first Centre for Disease Control.
- Brittany Busch
Cash was ‘temporarily’ banned on Brisbane buses and trains. It never came back
The Australian government plans to force businesses to accept cash for essential services. Should public transport be included?
- Felicity Caldwell
- Opinion
- Productivity summit
I’ve changed my mind about red tape, but cutting it won’t solve everything
Streamlining regulation won’t be easily or quickly achieved, certainly not in a three-day roundtable.
- Ross Gittins
How bank branches can avoid the fate of video stores
Bank branches won’t disappear, but what happens in them will be very different in five to 10 years, says the Banking Association’s outgoing boss Anna Bligh.
- Clancy Yeates
Victorians react to the 2025 state budget
We asked six different Victorians what they thought of this year’s state budget. This is what they said.
- Lachlan Abbott, Henrietta Cook, Madeleine Heffernan, Noel Towell, Tom Cowie and Nicole Precel