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If government won’t pay for roads, nor should we through fuel excise
If the government is going to cut infrastructure spending, it is only fair it helps cut the cost of living for families by reducing the fuel excise rate too, writes Matt Canavan.
One group of Aussies to blame for cost crisis
One group of Aussies are “undermining” efforts to ease inflation and some of the nation’s most vulnerable are paying the price.
‘Train wreck’: Areas doomed by rate rise
Millions of Australians are now spending more than they earn thanks to the RBA’s rapid run of rate hikes, and some areas are especially struggling.
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Bald-faced banana benders eye NSW businesses
THOSE thick-as thieves up in Queensland have launched a shameless campaign to steal businesses away from New South Wales.
SOAPBOX: Is the Sunshine Coast unaffordable?
‘It worries me that those people whose bread and butter built what we know now might be pushed out in a desperate quick cash grab for the future.’
LETTER: Fuel costs important
‘So if it is so important to query the banks, why not do the same with the petrol companies?’
Living as a pensioner in Toowoomba is tough
Pensioners have missed out on any increase despite an increase to the minimum wage, writes Rob Armstrong.
Coles fires a trolley volley
Coles is stepping up the price game by marking down the prices of 150 products by 25% and moving 1000 products to its “every day low pricing” range.
New financial year brings price hikes to households
THE new financial year has ticked over which means many people are booking appointments with accountants and readying themselves for a tax return, or bill.
Will your grocery bill increase after the election?
LNP says price of dinner staples will rise under Labor with a new carbon tax, but the opposition says their climate change policies won’t hurt family budgets
Local fruit and veg half the price of the big boys
The NewsMail compares prices of a local $20 box of fruit and vegetables to Coles and Woolworths
READER’S VIEW: Who is responsible for annual ‘wages case’
DO you realise that Australia’s high standard of living has been delivered by unions?
RACQ gives Gladstone petrol prices the thumbs down
IF you have gone to the bowsers to fill up on fuel and thought the prices were a little steep, you weren’t wrong.
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