Greg Jericho

A rise would only add to the cost of necessities without reducing inflation, hitting households already struggling with a 70% increase in mortgage costs

Australians are already getting hit by higher costs for necessities, reducing their ability to save and spend money on non-essential goods and services

Soaring repayments are a massive impost on the ability of most to afford a loan. It’s no wonder people are shopping around like never before

If you look at what’s increased most in price over the past year, such as petrol, there is little that higher interest rates would change

Taking an equity stake in a sector that so far has weathered three of most turbulent years makes financial sense and would improve housing affordability

Despite the highest inflation growth in 32 years, the figures suggest a peak has likely been reached

Energy companies began swimming in cash and unemployment kept dropping in a 2022 that defied predictions

The poorest 20% of households are aided significantly by services like education and health. But the stage-three tax cuts threatens their funding

The OECD predicts 1.9% economic growth for Australia next year. That’s the good news

At a time when people are struggling to pay the bills, a windfall profits tax could have doubled jobseeker or funded aged care

Both Federer and his career-long rival Nadal crying demonstrates that they have not lost their humanity to the lust for victory

It would take a bubble bursting to even get back to the level of housing affordability we saw in June 2020

With overall prices increasing by 6.1% and essential items being even more expensive, workers are feeling the pinch

The situation is worst in high paying occupations. Only members of parliament see women with a higher median salary

The hope for productivity driving wages growth will only occur if the labour market truly becomes fair

What a wonderful world we live in where a wage rise below inflation will apparently cause greater inflation!

Should the RBA stifle the recovery with fast rate rises, workers’ real incomes will continue to fall

If you think the real wages of the lowest paid in Australia should go backwards, you’re advocating for declining living standards

Rock-bottom rates provided a buffer to soaring house prices, but that is over. Repaying a mortgage will be harder than ever

Our major political parties – and the media – seem to have forgotten we’re heading for a cliff when it comes to temperature rises