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Lisa Reed's avatar

The percentage of cash transactions is higher than any professor of economics would be able to calculate. I live in a small country town, and volunteer at our local community run op shop. Cash only. My daughters church run playgroup in Brisbane- cash only. Sales of raffle tickets for little local charities and church groups in little country towns- cash only. Such little charities can't afford internet access, mobile phone plans and square readers. Thank God for cash. It's portable, doesn't need any hardware to operate and doesn't need power or internet access. There is a whole other world in the country that professors would be totally unaware of. If cashless comes in, local communities may work out their own barter systems with some local currency printed.

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Alison's avatar

I am totally fed up with all the fees that places like hotels charge you, yet they are the ones who no longer accept cash. I also live in Far North Queensland where we have cyclones etc and the first thing out is electricity and so being able to use cards is not possible. There are no systems in place for power outages etc. Being so dependent on an unreliable power system is just stupid. Lets face it our power system is one of our biggest problems into the future. One day I was in Bunnigs when the eftpos system failed, it was bedlam, and only 1 staff member knew how to use the old manual card thing with the individual paperslip , and then they ran out of the slips.

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