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Why is the government trying to make the cashless debit card permanent? Research shows it does not work

  • Written by: Elise Klein, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Dystopic policy in Australia is often hidden in plain sight.

As Curtin University Professor Suvendrini Perera has written, systematic failures are not necessarily “spectacular acts” but the “decisions and indecisions of bureaucratic oversights and misplaced assumptions”. And these amount to a “slow...

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