Trying to find a bank branch near me is getting harder and harder. Bank branches are closing down fast. Bank owned ATMs are also closing. (Full list of suburbs and towns that are losing their big-bank branches is below). You can be forgiven for thinking we are we being herded into a cashless society because Australia lost 643 bank branches
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“So much winning, you’ll get tired of winning,” promised Donald Trump to his adoring supporters. The truth of his presidency may not have been quite as much winning as promised but the real truth he was speaking was clear. So clear, it seems kind of dumb to say it out loud: We live in a hyper-competitive world where ‘winning’ is
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For many years, I had been unable to lose weight without putting it back on quickly. Despite the diets and the punishing exercise regimes I was consistently over my healthy Body Mass Index and not liking myself because of it. Being heavier than I wanted to be meant I was secretly calling myself fat. I was criticising myself, even when
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Multiple bank ‘outages’ leave consumers stranded. Regular outages from big bank systems are leaving consumers and retailers stranded. Commonwealth Bank’s Netbank is reported to be OUT today (1 March 2021) leaving MILLIONS of Aussies without online access to account statements, online bill payments, online transfers and balances. ANZ Bank Mobile and Internet Banking systems were the subject of up to
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What’s on in Melbourne this Invasion Day (Australia Day holiday 26 January)? There’s no better way to start your holiday than with a swim in our beautiful Port Phillip Bay, followed by breakfast on the beach. We are starting this Invasion Day event with an acknowledgement of the Traditional Owners of the country: We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this
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Netflix’s The Social Dilemma exposes the human impact of social media engineering – for profit. Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma,” is a top ten trending documentary-drama exploring the dangerous human impact of social engineering based on data. This is social media’s greatest tech experts sounding the alarm on their own monster creations. Released last week, The Social Dilemma focusses on the
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They said digital payments would defeat criminals, terrorists and money launderers but the opposite has turned out to be true. Money laundering through banks, hackers blackmailing legitimate listed companies for cryptocurrency payoffs and regular outages by my bank’s Eftpos system show cash may be our last bulwark against the crims and the thieves. Card companies and banks implied that cash
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The Reserve Bank of Australia’s latest Quarterly Bulletin has rejected the idea of issuing a digital currency for Australia. Long held up as the future of the ‘physical’ currency, a digital currency is a verified token or account that could replace actual notes and coins without a bank or a card company involved. It’s real money online, issued by the RBA, worth
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has quietly changed this page today: This new page from the RBA reflects a subtle but important new emphasis and the start of what could be a continued gentle push from the PSB/RBA to protect the cash economy. While some Australian state health departments have advised consumers and retailers against using cash at the
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There has been a surge in cashless payments during the COVID-19 pandemic, igniting expectations, and fears, that Australia could become a completely cashless economy. More than two thousand ATMs and hundreds of bank branches throughout Australia have been removed already in 2020. Plenty of Aussies are not embracing the idea of a cashless economy according to a big new study
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