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Vibhu Arya, PhD Student, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney

No more card charges: how Australians can switch to fast, fee-free payments right now

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Every day, when Australians tap their card at a cafe checkout or hit pay on an online order, there’s often an unpredictable, frustrating extra cost: the card surcharge.

Australians pay more than $1.2 billion every year in card surcharges, with 88% of our payments still made using cards.

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