‘Gradual death of cash’: Bob Katter blows up after cash rejected at Parliament House cafe

Sky News host Chris Kenny says people are witnessing the “gradual death of cash” after Federal MP Bob Katter was denied the ability to pay cash when buying lunch in Parliament House. “She [the cashier] said, ‘we don’t accept cash’ and I said ‘well too bad for you, you have to, it’s legal tender and it’s illegal for you not to take cash’,” Mr Katter told Sky News Australia on Wednesday. “We’ve had a lot of anti-cashless rallies in north Queensland … it’s quite right we start the fight against cashless society; if you have a cashless society, the banks control your life.” Mr Kenny praised the federal MP after the cafe eventually took his cash. “But it's a salient warning about how bad the death of cash is becoming,” Mr Kenny said.