16 Oct 2024

Australia: Card surcharge crackdown, childcare spend-up

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 16 October 2024
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Australia correspondent Bernard Keane talks about plans to phase in a flat daily fee for childcare to avoid a flood of new enrolments.

The Federal Government is also planning to phase out those sneaky surcharges that customers can incur - an estimated billion dollars a year as more Aussies tap and go.

And it's a year since the failed Voice vote to Parliament - what's happening to give indigenous communities more of a say in how they work with state and federal government?

Bernard Keane is political editor for Crikey.com

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