Australia could be Cashless in two years - ABC

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Published by: ABC on 8 Jun 2020
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ABC News Breakfast Topic:Business, Economics and Finance Australians are embracing tech and shifting away from cash. (Unsplash: Nathan Dumlao) As Australia flirts with the idea of a cashless society after coronavirus, Sweden has a warning: be careful what you wish for. Sweden is often cited as

the most cashless country in the world.

It was already well on the way to digital-only payments before the pandemic was declared, and the virus has only served to hasten the demise of cash.

"If you walk in the city in Stockholm nowadays, most of the stores will have signs saying they don't accept cash anymore," says Niklas Arvidsson, an associate professor at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology.

If you are one of the many Australians who now prefer to use a card over cash, this might not sound like such a bad thing.

But as Mr Arvidsson explains, there are now concerns Sweden went too hard too early and the rapid switch can have unintended consequences.

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What is Cashless?
A cashless society describes an economic state whereby financial transactions are not conducted with money in the form of physical banknotes or coins. Transactions are through the transfer of digital information (usually an electronic representation of money) between the transacting parties

Cashless societies have existed from the time when human society came into existence, based on barter and other methods of exchange, and cashless transactions have also become possible in modern times using digital currencies such as bitcoin.
What is Australia?
Australia, officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia. It is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. Australia is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The

population of 26 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

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