Hint: cutting out avocado toast won’t help much. Research shows your chances of owning a home hinge on your income relative to house prices, and whether you can access the ‘bank of mum and dad’.
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It isn’t just not being able to split bills. Tax systems and social expectations can also play a role. If we want to fix this inequity, we have to understand what drives it.
As Australian families prepare for term 1, many will receive letters from their public schools asking them to pay fees.
The most successful shoddy droppers were smooth talkers attractively dressed in made-to-measure three-piece suits – but the cloth they sold was often poor quality.
Consumers have to trade off preserving their capital for retirement and meeting their monthly financial obligations.
While the tax break will indeed put more money into consumers’ pockets as the government has claimed, whether it will actually ease inflationary pressure is questionable.
As she reads the economic commentators, Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock might, in moments of doubt, wonder whether she’s making a similar mistake to her predecessor Philip Lowe.
Research has found people see backyard chickens as pets – but wouldn’t take them to the vet. It raises important questions about how we relate to the non-human world.
The housing crisis is forcing some people into an impossible choice: homelessness or sharing not just an apartment but a bedroom with strangers.
Canadians have a distorted view of others’ financial well-being compared to their neighbours across the border.
For those who struggle with regulating home temperatures or have limited access to resources, the consistent warmth provided by cinemas can be a crucial relief.
Increasing competition in the market is the only viable way to get Australian domestic airfares to fall in the long term. That’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Recent protests in the French overseas territories of Martinique and Guadeloupe are ostensibly over cost-of-living increases. But the roots of inequality go much deeper.
The National-led coalition has a challenging mandate to govern, given voter expectations and surprisingly high levels of satisfaction with the outgoing Labour Party.
There are five ways governments can draw on scientific evidence to deal with multiple crises.
How likely are the new changes to make home ownership more attainable for Canadians who increasingly view it as a distant dream?
On Monday, Anthony Albanese, made the message to voters full of angst over the cost of living is that the PM doesn’t want to be out of the country more than he has to be by going to the quad.
We should not be surprised to see businesses like H&T doing well as living costs continue to rise.
Booksellers are weathering the high street storm partly because they offer consumers more than just retail.
Using higher interest rates to contain inflation creates winners and losers rather than sustainably making living more affordable.
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