Follow live updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Tram passengers in Melbourne will be able to pay for their trip using a bank card, smartphone or smartwatch from today. The long awaited expansion of tap-and-go payments follows a staged roll out to the city’s train network and main regional routes. Buses are expected to follow. From today, you can step off a train and straight on to a tram using the same phone, watch or bank card. Four in five tap and go trips are already being made with a phone or smartwatch – showing more Victorians are leaving the wallet at home. The potential for this virus to kill wildlife in significant numbers means it could be particularly catastrophic for threatened species. We are talking about possible extinctions, alongside severe impacts to common birds like our beloved pelicans and black swans. This is a genuine wildlife emergency and it must be treated as such with emergency funding to increase efforts to protect wildlife p
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