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‘Completely agreed’: Albanese denies rolling Chalmers on ATO credit card ban · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristen Amiott with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Jim Chalmers says he wasn't undercut
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  Speaker 1: by the Prime Minister on a controversial tax office plan
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  Speaker 1: to ban credit card payments. The ATO announced on October
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  Speaker 1: 1 it would stop some taxpayers and small business owners
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  Speaker 1: from paying their tax bills with plastic after the Reserve
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  Speaker 1: Bank banned businesses from passing credit card surcharges onto customers.
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  Speaker 1: The move was met with backlash from business owners, who
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  Speaker 1: said they'd been blindsided. Last week, Chalmers said the ATO
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  Speaker 1: ban would be delayed until next year to give everyone
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  Speaker 1: time to transition to the new rules. And on Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he'd personally intervened to make
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  Speaker 1: that extension happen. But the Treasurer said on Wednesday he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been undercut by Albanese, and he said they'd been
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  Speaker 1: in high-level discussions about the plan together. Albanese then walked
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  Speaker 1: back his earlier comments in question time on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: The Treasurer and I had a discussion last week and
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  Speaker 2: we unanimously, right across the leadership of the government, agreed
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  Speaker 2: that the decision by the ATO to have a limited
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  Speaker 2: period of pause.
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  Speaker 2: On the ban that had been imposed needed to be
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  Speaker 2: extended so that there would be proper consultation with small business.
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  Speaker 2: Completely agreed by the Treasurer and myself, completely agreed in
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  Speaker 2: a way that was consistent with how we do good government.
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  Speaker 2: Good government.
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  Speaker 1: Chalmers said he agreed with the Prime Minister's view that
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  Speaker 1: the government needed to step in to push the ATO
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  Speaker 1: credit card ban back by several months. China established a
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  Speaker 1: military airbase in Laos, marking the first expansion of its
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  Speaker 1: military powers on foreign land. Converted from a former CIA facility,
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  Speaker 1: the base will serve as a training centre for Laos'
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  Speaker 1: air force and will be jointly run by the Chinese
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  Speaker 1: and Laotian governments. but satellite imagery suggests it could also
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  Speaker 1: service Chinese bombers and fighter jets. Australian rock band Powderfinger
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  Speaker 1: added new shows to the lineup of their surprise reunion
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  Speaker 1: tour within hours of ticket pre-sales beginning on Wednesday. Sixteen
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  Speaker 1: years after calling it quits, Powderfinger announced last week they'll
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  Speaker 1: reunite for a run of shows around the country in 2027.
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  Speaker 1: New shows were added in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney as
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  Speaker 1: fans raced to scoop up tickets before they go on
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  Speaker 1: sale to the general public. Check out those stories live
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  Speaker 1: right now at theaustralian.com.au and come back to the front
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  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our look at the
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  Speaker 1: chronically delayed, constantly over budget Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme. That's
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  Speaker 1: right here Thursday morning.