Asia-Pacific / Australia · Business & Economy

Australia bans credit card surcharges

Rank
Ran: 38h
Updated: 4d ago
Final
Outlets: 5
Regions: 1
Countries: 3
Languages: 1

SBS News Australia · English 30 Sept, 05:05 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

The only language so far · English, 5 reports

Read at SBS News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: SBS News, 30 Sept, 05:05 UTC.
Second country: New Zealand, with RNZ.
Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

SBS News 30 Sept, 05:05 UTC
RNZ +12h 34m
The Sydney Morning Herald +14h 55m
Nikkei Asia +19h 56m
NZ Herald +22h 55m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 3 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 2 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 3: Australia, Japan, New Zealand. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article SBS News, 30 Sept 2026, 05:05 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 05:10 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 19:45 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Australia. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

1 Oct 2026 385 3.29 5 3 3 3 4.0

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Started 30 Sept, 05:10 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 19:45 UTC

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Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

SBS News Australia 1 Oct, 19:45 UTC
The card surcharge ban is in force. Now Australians are questioning new fees
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- Australia's card surcharge ban starts tomorrow. Here's everything you need to know 30 Sept, 05:05 UTC
NZ Herald New Zealand 1 Oct, 04:00 UTC
Card surcharge lifts in Australia today - will New Zealand follow?
Nikkei Asia Japan 1 Oct, 01:00 UTC
Australia's small businesses brace for squeeze from card surcharge ban
The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 30 Sept, 22:07 UTC
‘Quite ill-prepared’: Shops scramble to meet new card surcharge ban
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- No more card surcharges from today 30 Sept, 19:59 UTC
RNZ New Zealand 30 Sept, 17:38 UTC
Australia bans card surcharges - will we follow suit?