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Housing costs have outpaced inflation, and governments helped make it happen

Their experience feels very different because the headline Consumer Price Index is an average across...

Housing costs have outpaced inflation, and governments helped make it happen

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Their experience feels very different because the headline Consumer Price Index is an average across...

Australians are regularly told that inflation is running at a certain annual rate, yet many households look at their mortgage payments, rent, electricity bills, council rates, and insurance premiums and...

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Their experience feels very different because the headline Consumer Price Index is an average across... Australians are regularly told that inflation is running at a certain annual rate, yet many households look at their mortgage payments, rent, electricity bills, council rates, and insurance premiums and wonder whose cost of living the official figures really measure.

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Australians are regularly told that inflation is running at a certain annual rate, yet many households look at their mortgage payments, rent, electricity bills, council rates, and insurance premiums and wonder whose cost of living the official figures really measure.

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