The polls detected rising anxiety about living costs early in 2022. It is now entrenched as our number one concern.
Average prices dropped by 11.6¢ a litre to 178.2 in Sydney and 4.5¢ a litre to 184.8 in Melbourne in the three months to September.
Driving around Melton,Gary Mitchell is able to predict the prices at every servo in town after spotting just one.
Families now have to fork out hundreds of dollars more a month for everyday services and expenses compared to this time last year.
Electric vehicles are famously quick off the mark. However,when it comes to going electric,Australia has not been. But we’re finally putting our foot down.
The temporary fuel excise cut of 22¢ a litre will end at 11.59pm,with higher prices expected to flow through to bowsers within a week.
Cutting fuel taxes was never the solution to our cost-of-living crisis and has probably done more harm than good.
If petrol stations increase their prices by the full 25¢ a litre before mid-October,they may have some explaining to do to the consumer watchdog.
The federal government will sign up to the cap when G7 nations led by the United States impose the controls later this year in the hope of keeping oil prices down without halting supplies.
As petrol prices sink well below the $2-a-litre highs seen at pumps in June,Treasurer Jim Chalmers readies to axe this cost-of-living measure.
Burned out,time poor and with empty pockets,these students are forced to budget creatively as the human face of Australia’s once-in-a-generation economic crisis.