In the main committee room of Parliament House, Labor MP Jerome Laxale held up a crumpled $5 polymer banknote. Why, he asked the bosses of Australia’s major banks, if he paid for the same cup of coffee with his debit card did it cost $5.08?
He produced a debit card with the inflated price taped to its front to ram home the apparent injustice, like a referee wielding a red card.