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‘Stop Herding Us Into a Cashless Society’: Calls for Pause on Bank Closures Following Optus Outage

The Optus outage has sparked fears of a world without cash.
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‘Stop Herding Us Into a Cashless Society’: Calls for Pause on Bank Closures Following Optus Outage
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Monica O’Shea
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Cash advocates are calling for a halt to bank and automated teller machine closures in Australia following a major telecommunications outage.

Ten million Australians and 40,000 businesses were affected when Australia’s second largest telecommunications network went down on Nov. 8.

Monica O’Shea
Monica O’Shea
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Monica O’Shea is a reporter based in Australia. She previously worked as a reporter for Motley Fool Australia, Daily Mail Australia, and Fairfax Regional Media. She can be reached at monica.o'[email protected]
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