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Albanese government has surcharges in its sights, as it pursues the votes of consumers

By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Albanese government has announced a first step in what it says is a crackdown on excessive card surcharges and threatened a ban on surcharges for debit cards from early 2026.

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