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Australia gets the biggest cost cut of our lifetimes

The country is saving the equivalent of an NBN each year as the cost of sustaining our ballooning debt plummets.

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Last year delivered lots of bad news – there weren’t many bright spots. Yet arguably the brightest spot of all has barely rated a mention.

Take a moment to remember that the defining economic legacy of COVID-19 is likely to be very low interest rates. For Australians, that delivers a huge cut in their costs.

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Sheraan Underwood is a senior economist at Deloitte.

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