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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jonathan Barrett and Jordyn Beazley

‘My whole world revolves around cash’: why some Australians fear being left behind by a cashless future

Heather Lewis in Swanston St Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Friday 8th December 2023.
Disability support pensioner Heather Lewis says losing access to physical cash ‘would make life very hard’. Photograph: Abigail Varney/The Guardian

Heather Lewis has an unusual budgeting method in the age of online banking, but it works for her.

When the disability support pensioner gets paid, she heads to her local bank branch in Melbourne, withdraws the cash and places it into plastic pockets according to each bill or expense.

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