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RHIANNON SHINE, REPORTER: It's a busy day at this bank in the inner Perth suburb of Wembley.VOX POP 2: I am really, really annoyed that they have put money and profits before their customers.
RHIANNON SHINE: Wendy Streets from the Finance Sector Union says these scanned documents sent to 7.30 show the bank has been pushing customers away from their bricks-and-mortar stores for years. RHIANNON SHINE: Across Australia, the number of total bank branches has fallen from about 5,700 in 2017 to just 3,500 last year.The trend is really being felt in the country’s regional and remote communities including in the Pilbara town of Tom Price, which lost its only bank branch, a Westpac, over a year ago.
CARLEN WOODS, KASHBURTON ABORIGINAL CORPORATION: The digital divide is huge. We have a lot of our communities that do not have access to reliable phone network, internet networks are lacking. ROBBIE BARWICK, AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS PARTY: Our party represents the citizens. We are frustrated that the reason we exist, we believe, is because the major parties too often represent vested interests, and they leave the citizens behind.
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