cost-of-living pressures

The powerful people who control the purse strings of Australia’s biggest companies are worried about what lies ahead next year, coinciding with a warning the economy has “hit a wall”.Consulting firm Deloitte released its biannual CFO…

More and more Aussies are lying on their home loan applications, as cost-of-living pressures continue to bite, according to one financial tech company.Fortiro works with big banks and lenders to detect fraudulent documents.Co-founder Sean…

In a wide-ranging and fiery interview, Mitchell grilled Anthony Albanese over cost of living, anti-Semitism, immigration, Voluntary Assisted Dying, and legalising cannabis.He even asked the Labor leader whether he could get the country to…

Just about everywhere you look, there are worsening signs that Australia is no longer the lucky country.From record-high rents to skyrocketing mortgages, a cost-of-living crisis to the alarming emergence of a ‘working poor’ population, the…

Karl Stefanovic has taken aim at Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles over his government’s response to Australia’s increasing cost-of-living pressures, blowing up over his use of repeated “lines” and questioning a potential cut to the fuel…

Gen Z Australians are saving hard to splash out on “once-in-a-lifetime” moments as part of a generational move to make up for time lost to the pandemic, according to the latest consumer survey from one of Australia’s biggest banks. NAB’s…

Some 3.7 million Australian households are going hungry or on the edge of falling into hunger according to a shocking new report from one of the country’s leading social charities. Foodbank Australia’s 2023 Hunger Report says more than a…

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has issued a sombre warning for all Australians, predicting years of struggle ahead.Addressing the nation in his budget speech on Tuesday night, Dr Chalmers made no secret of the fact that Australia was not immune to…

Samsung Electronics has reported its worst quarterly profits in 14 years, blaming slowing consumer spending on electronics and a global microchip glut that hit its core memory business.The South Korean company — one of the world’s largest…

Demand for rescued food for struggling Australians has “never been higher”, new research shows, with the impacts of Covid, natural disasters and cost-of-living pressures creating a concerning perfect storm.In an effort to meet the rising…