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Dave Sharma

Paying to tap and go should no longer be a fact of life

The RBA’s proposed reforms offer a considered way forward toward a more modern and competitive system that is more friendly to consumers and small businesses.

Paying a fee in order to spend your own money is a strange state of affairs.

It offends against common sense and the basic principles of commerce. It would find a ready home in a Kafka novel, but should have no place in the real world.

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Dave Sharma is a federal Liberal Senator for NSW and shadow assistant minister for competition, charities and Treasury.

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