Australians Are Spending More, But Feeling Worse Than Ever Australian consumer confidence hit a historic low in March 2026 despite higher spending. The RBA rate hikes and Middle East fuel shock are creating mortgage stress for 1.41 million households.

Australians Are Spending More, But Feeling Worse Than Ever

#RBA #InterestRates #MortgageStress #CostOfLiving #AusEconomics #AusNews

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Forced to Plan for Retirement as Real Wages Collapse Government mandates superannuation planning for 50+ while real wages decline for the first time this cycle

Forced to Plan for Retirement as Real Wages Collapse

#Superannuation #Wages #RBA #AusEconomics #RetirementPlanning #AusNews

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Your Pay Just Went Backwards: Why Real Wages Tanked in 2025 Real wages dropped 0.3% in 2025 as inflation outpaced pay rises for the first time in two years. Recovery won't come until mid-2027.

Your Pay Just Went Backwards: Why Real Wages Tanked in 2025

#RealWages #Inflation #AusEconomics #CostOfLiving #AusNews

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'If it's a priority, we can always afford it. Anything less is just an excuse' Australian governments have been urged to stop crying poor and hiding behind the excuse that “we can’t afford” meaningful social progress.

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Inflation: Demand Pull or Cost Push? A Markov Switching approach. Pu Chen and Willi Semmler

Just found a riveting little paper breaking down the influences of cost-push vs demand-pull inflation in Australia. Citation in the image/alt text. #econosky #inflation #auseconomics

Episode 166: Housing, health and education: The debates we all have to have, and the bobcats we deserve Podcast Episode ·

So me & @vanbadham.bsky.social are trying to get the #podcast working again. We’ve even got a producer to help take some of the pressure off me (and maybe help the sound quality)

It’s still the #auspol banter & #auseconomics chat that people loved & FREE

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