Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Finance and Debt Reduction) Share this | Hansard source

Just very briefly, we see that the issue pertaining to the payment of cash is external to the contract terms for which the provision of the service or the good was provided, and using the example of payment at the post office is a good one. Your contract with the telephone company is not necessarily your contract with the person who collects the cash at the post office. So if the person in the post office wants to charge you a fee, then that is external to the contract that you hold and that is why I do not feel that in this instance it is applicable to this piece of legislation.