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Cashless debit cards: a helping hand or the nanny state?

Steve Evans
Updated December 8 2020 - 12:24pm, first published 4:00am
The card can't be used to get cash out. Picture: Shutterstock
The card can't be used to get cash out. Picture: Shutterstock

The trial of the government's latest cashless welfare card scheme is due to end in a few weeks but the government wants to make it permanent.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

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Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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