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Cash was temporarily banned on south-east Queensland public transport during the pandemic, and then permanently banned.

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

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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
Bank branches can dodge the fate of video rental stores, the banking industry’s peak body says.

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
Liam Walsh and Rosalina Prasetio currently rent a townhouse in Frankston, but want the security of home ownership to start a family.

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
Shoppers walk pass the World of Ralph Lauren in Taiku Li Sanlitun, a popular shopping and dining area in Beijing.

What a $5000 Chanel handbag tells you about China’s economy

In Beijing, the squeezing of the upper middle class shows just how far into Chinese society the economic slowdown is reaching.

  • Lisa Visentin
Armaguard’s woes last year highlighted the strain on the cash distribution system.

‘The cost of cash is real’: So who’s really paying to keep it alive?

Moving cash around the country in armoured cars costs money. But unlike digital payments that attract surcharges, these costs aren’t visible to consumers.

  • Clancy Yeates
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Military delegates march ahead of the opening session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

‘Changes unseen in a century’: China braces for shifting global order

As a trade war with the United States begins, China wants to fire up its economy and plans to increase defence spending.

  • Lisa Visentin
In 2022-23, the Mint made more than 110 million Australian coins. The year before that, it made more than 134 million. In 2023-24, it made about 47 million.

The coin that Australia’s ‘Uber for cash’ wants to kill

Millions of coins sit in wallets, banks, cash register tills, back pockets and underneath sofa cushions – and they face an unknown fate.

  • Millie Muroi
Supermarkets would have to offer cash payments to customers but bottle shops not under a planned cash mandate.

Cash will remain king in the supermarket – but not at the bottle-o

The government is mandating cash for essential services across the country. Supermarkets and petrol stations are in – but bottle shops and cafes are out.

  • Shane Wright
Candlelight vigil held for victims of mass stabbing in China.

Flurry of mass casualty attacks in China causes alarm

There have been at least nine mass killings and attacks in China in 2024 – three more than in the entire previous decade.

  • Casey Hall

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