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    Michele Bullock’s shock prediction for the future of cash in Australia

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    Australia’s chief central banker is predicting very few people will still be using cash within a decade – as the nation’s main cash delivery company struggles financially.

    Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock made the bold prediction to MPs in Canberra. 

    ‘We’ve got to think that cash is going to be around for probably another 10 years and we’ve got to find a way of moving to a new system that means that distribution of cash can be undertaken and viable,’ she told the House of Representatives economics committee on Friday.

    ‘You only have to look overseas to see that it’s not making a rebound, really.

    ‘I don’t think anything’s going to turn it around – I think it’s on a long-term decline and the reason being is that people find making electronic payments just much more efficient.’

    Ms Bullock told Toowoomba-based Liberal MP Garth Hamilton there was no guarantee Linfox Armaguard could reach a deal with the banks to continue delivering cash beyond July, despite having a near monopoly on the cash delivery business. 

    ‘I’m never confidence in this cash space at the moment,’ she said.

    ‘I think they have to find a solution by June – if they don’t then we’re in trouble.’ 

    Michele Bullock’s shock prediction for the future of cash in Australia

    Australia’s chief central banker Michele Bullock is predicting very few people will still be using cash within a decade

    The Australian Banking Association, its major bank members and big retails in June last year reached a 12-month agreement with Armaguard to provide $50million to subsidise its cash-in-transit operations.

    But for cash deliveries to continue beyond July, a new deal must be struck, with Armaguard previously flagging it would struggle to continue delivering banknotes beyond 2026. 

    ‘If you don’t want the consumers to pay, then someone has to pay and it’s going to be difficult to figure out how it is subsidised,’ Ms Bullock said.

    ‘I think the idea that people pay to use cash would not go down well.’  

    Just 13 per cent of transactions are now being done in cash, the Reserve Bank’s own figures show.

    ‘The digital side of things – I can’t remember the last time I went into a bank,’ Ms Bullock said.

    ‘There’s a large portion of the population that have gone purely digital, but there’s another portion – they are often the more vulnerable people, lower income people, the regional people, they’re the ones being squeezed by this.’

    Ms Bullock said it was ‘very challenging’ providing the fixed-cost infrastructure used to provide cash to retailers and the dwindling number of local bank branches. 

    Just 13 per cent of transactions are now being done in cash, the Reserve Bank's own figures show

    Just 13 per cent of transactions are now being done in cash, the Reserve Bank’s own figures show

    ‘The difficulty with moving to a much more digital payments system and banking system is that increasingly, the person-to-person element of that is getting smaller and smaller,’ she said.

    ‘And there’s a group of people who really want to use that but they are just becoming a smaller and smaller group.

    ‘There’s a real tension between effectively servicing them at a much higher cost than you’re servicing everyone else.’

    The Reserve Bank chief suggested the vast majority of Australians who used tap-and-go card and mobile wallet payments were cross-subsiding the small minority of consumers who still used banknotes to pay for everyday goods and services. 

    ‘The bulk of your customers are basically cross-subsidising that group the much, much smaller group,’ Ms Bullock said.

    ‘There is a very big challenge here – the cash system is an example of it.’ 

    Ms Bullock’s comments echo Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn in 2023 telling a Senate inquiry, on regional bank closures, that those who don’t use cash were subsidising those who do.

    ‘Transporting and making cash available around our vast country involves considerable expense of logistics and security,’ he said.

    Ms Bullock told Toowoomba-based Liberal MP Garth Hamilton there was no guarantee Linfox Armaguard could reach a deal with the banks to continue delivering cash beyond July, despite having a near monopoly on the cash delivery business

    Ms Bullock told Toowoomba-based Liberal MP Garth Hamilton there was no guarantee Linfox Armaguard could reach a deal with the banks to continue delivering cash beyond July, despite having a near monopoly on the cash delivery business

    Australia’s major banks last week agreed to put a moratorium on regional bank closures until July 2027.

    Treasurer Jim Chalmers in December introduced a cash mandate requiring businesses to accept cash when selling essential items.

    But the disappearance of local bank branches and ATMs is being it increasingly difficult for Australians to access cash. 

    A closer look at figures from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority showed 847 branches in regional and remote parts of the country had closed since June 2017.

    Nationwide, 2,335 branches had closed in both capital cities and regional areas over seven years – a 41 per cent plunge.



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