Uh. No.

Do you seriously think Australia is a big enough player for mastercard and visa to kowtow despite building pressure planetwide? We’ee fucking small potatoes and we’ve always known ir.

Payment processors own upper echelons are full of weird religious fundamentalists, and that’s where a lot of this is coming from. Don’t give collective shout any credit, very few people in Australia even knew who the fuck they were before they started claiming shit. They’re the online version of that weird proselytiser outside st paul’s.

(And if you think Conroy is a tie, lemme describe in detail how much people want to barbecue that idiot…)