This is very cheap, but they come into these communities with very little income support. Some very small towns absorb a certain number of these people into a highly integrated and functioning community. Other small country towns have actually got overwhelmed and lost their traditional community functioning to some degree. Things might go wrong for these families and they have no social supports around them. Banking Concern was expressed about the impact of the loss of banking facilities in small country towns.
People get access to cash through small businesses that have eftpos.
Those small businesses then have to have access to a large pool of cash, which provide them with a security problem. Last updated 9 March 2001 . Your comments and feedback are welcome.