As the article notes,
“Currently, there are no
legal requirements for businesses to accept cash if they have another option
that does not slap customers with a fee. The Treasury announced late on Sunday
that the federal government was looking to mandate that businesses accept cash
for 'essential items'.
'People are increasingly
using digital payment methods, but there is an ongoing place for cash in our
society under the Albanese government,' Treasurer Jim Chalmers (pictured left)
and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones (Pictured right) said in a joint statement.
'The government will mandate that businesses must accept cash when selling
essential items, with appropriate exemptions for small businesses.'”
They said the government was
still fleshing out what constitutes an essential item. But broadly speaking, it
would include things such as groceries and fuel, with supermarkets, basic
banking services, pharmaceuticals, petrol stations, utilities and healthcare
services. 'For many Australians, cash is more than a payment method, it's a
lifeline,' the Treasury officials continued. 'Around 1.5 million Australians
use cash to make more than 80 per cent of their in-person payments. Cash also
provides an easily accessible back-up to digital payments in times of natural
disaster or digital outage.'[1]
This is a big win for a lot of people.
Interesting that it's the Labor party, too, that is
moving to protect cash payment.
I say this often and I know it's unpopular, but even bad
governments are given for good order and can get things right. Kids off social
media. Cash being protected. Let's hope they make Only Fans and it's like
illegal next. You never know.
But this move to protect people’s right to use cash is a move in the right direction and against the globalist push towards making
everything electronic. Just recently the inability for people to get access to
payments because of power outages during natural disasters highlighted the
importance of having a non-digital legal currency. But what is interesting is
that the article notes that Norway has taken steps to protect cash usage
because of security concerns about Russia. Showing that Russia’s opposition to
the global world order encroaching on its borders has had knock on effects
against that global world order that some did not except.
This is often the case with empire and globalist
movements. One nation seeks to dominate all others, and this overreach causes a
reaction against it from nations strong enough to resist, and this undoes all
of the global pretensions of that power. We are seeing this at work with Russia
and its allies opposing the Neo-Liberal order right now.
I do not think Australia’s move to protect cash payments
is a result of this. I think it is more likely that lobbying behind the scenes
and the clear threat to order posed by people not being able to access money
during a natural disaster if everything is electronic, showed that so called
digital future is far more fragile than people realized. This is good, let’s
pray for more moves in the right direction like this.
List of References
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/anthony-albaneses-reveals-major-changes-to-the-way-australians-pay/ss-AA1ugQZY#image=3
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