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RBA backs its own cash but leaves industry to finish the job

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23 Sep, 2026
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Warwick Ponder
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23 Sep, 2026
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The Reserve Bank says the cash it prints remains critical to Australia’s payments system, while leaving industry to resolve the pricing, ownership and distribution arrangements needed to keep it available.
RBA backs its own cash but leaves industry to finish the job
RBA Governor Michele Bullock. Background generated by AI.

The Reserve Bank says the cash it prints remains critical to Australia’s payments system, while leaving industry to resolve the pricing, ownership and distribution arrangements needed to keep it available.

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