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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
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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
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
‘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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- Inside China
‘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
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