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Australians lose $5,200 a minute to scammers. There’s a simple thing the government could do to reduce this. Why won’t they?

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Australians lose $5,200 a minute to scammers. There’s a simple thing the government could do to reduce this. Why won’t they?AnastasiaDudka/Shutterstock

What if the government was doing everything it could to stop thieves making off with our money, except the one thing that could really work?

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