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Cost of living crisis

August 2024

  • Woman holding watermelon in front of stacks of goods

    The cost of eating
    Incredible bulk: how much can Australians save on dry goods by buying a lot at once?

  • Hot air balloons fly over Melbourne at sunrise

    Melbourne mayor floats plan to slash household power bills by bulk buying renewable energy

  • RBA governor Michele Bullock in business attire sitting in front of a microphone

    RBA downplays role of government spending in stoking inflation

  • Residential housing in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Australians’ mortgage payments hit high not seen since before GFC, data shows

  • Inequality reporting
    The rich are getting richer: Australia’s wealth divide continues to widen

  • Australia news live
    Albanese praises breaker Raygun for having ‘a crack’ – as it happened

  • Furniture is getting really expensive. That doesn’t bode well for the Australian economy

  • ‘Too high for comfort’: transport costs rising at almost three times rate of inflation, data reveals

  • What’s 2024’s most popular sport?

  • Australians shunning petrol-powered cars for hybrid vehicles as bowser prices rise

July 2024

  • Stock image at a supermarket

    The five areas of life where Australians might notice inflation rise the most

  • Composite image showing a cow, coffee cup, a wine bottle, groceries and a plane

    Datablog
    Cost of living explorer 2024: track the impact of Australia’s quarterly CPI on prices

  • People are seen in a shopping centre

    Inflation rises to 3.8% amid hopes the RBA will hold off hiking interest rates again

  • Shoppers in a Melbourne shopping centre

    Australia’s inflation rise could light the fuse on an early election

  • Car repossessions surge in new sign of financial pain hitting Australian households

  • Change by degrees
    Clearing the air: how to get your household off gas

  • First Dog on the Moon
    Goodness me cheer up! Here are some things Guardian readers think are getting better

  • The real reason why Australia’s birthrate is falling

  • For most young Australians, the dream of owning a home has moved into the realm of fantasy

    Rebecca Huntley

  • Australia in biggest ‘baby recession’ since 1970s as pandemic birth boom fades

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