Congratulations to the ANF for excellent coverage last weekend in five major newspapers on their fight on behalf of all newsagents on the new EFTPOS fees which are set to take effect in a few months.
The effort invested in getting this coverage for newsagents would have been considerable. It is a good example of the ANF working on behalf of all newsagents.
Click on the image to see the Sunday Telegraph coverage from page 3 of the newspaper this past Sunday. This is a good example of the coverage the ANF has achieved on this issue right across the country.
Part of the problem with the EFTPOS issue is that it is complex to understand. It also has rich businesses (banks) on the other side engaged in an excellent spin campaign.
Sadly, too few politicians are prepared to do the work necessary to understand the impact about to it small businesses as a result of the new EFTPOS fee hike. Hopefully, the latest ANF led coverage in newspapers will result in fresh attention on the issue.
Also good coverage on ‘A Current Affair’ on Monday night – ANF CEO Alf Maccioni was the main party to the story.
Yep see my blog post from late yesterday on this.
Time for at least one bank to ‘BREAK UP’!
We still have until 15 August to convince at least one of the major banks to ‘break up’ so that the new fee regime fails. The result would be that all retailers continue to benefit from the current favorable EFTPOS interchange fee just as Coles and Woolworths do.
Talk, email, tweet to your local politician, your banker, your journalist, your radio and TV station that this EFTPOS Tax is an unjust and untimely burden on Australia’s merchants and consumers!