British Expats - ATM/EFTPOS in Aus

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Originally Posted by Shellyj (Post 7676517)

I must have been visiting the wrong shops on my visit in April. Not one place I went to had the chip & pin machines installed, I had to sign everywhere. I was wary of this having not done it here for an age.
I did find the whole savings or cheque thing odd, good though so you dont need to go to the bank to withdraw from savings account.

If you were using a UK-issued chip&pin card, then no, you wouldn't have been prompted to do chip&pin - from my experience, you have to sign if you're using a card from overseas (and when I was back in the UK last year, I had to sign when using my ANZ chip&pin card instead of using the PIN).

And as for being charged for cheques (on another post), I've not been charged at all for that. I have an ANZ account where you pay $5 per month and that covers all transactions. The only cheque I've had to pay for was a bank cheque when I bought my car.