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Renters spend 10 times as much on housing as petrol. Where's their cost-of-living relief?

  • Written by Joey Moloney, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute

If the pre-election budget was designed to address the cost of living, it missed something. In an effort to help those whose wages aren’t growing as quickly as prices, it offered

But it failed...

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