This episode features some of the best conversations of 2023, ABC News Daily will be back on Monday 29th January, 2024.
We’re in a cost of living crisis and in 2023 we saw multiple interest rate hikes by the RBA, ballooning mortgage repayments for borrowers.
In this episode we explore whether rate hikes are the only way to fight inflation, and ask when our wages will finally catch up.
Featured:
Michael Janda, ABC senior digital business reporter
Gareth Hutchens, ABC business and economics reporter
What contact sport is doing to our brains
The delivery riders at risk for your dinner
Alan Joyce’s rush for the emergency exit
How we’re surviving the interest rate squeeze
Will Australia follow Biden’s China tech ban?
Annabel Crabb on the Spanish kiss scandal
We have a referendum date. Now what?
How Qantas turned taxpayer dollars into profits
Do we have the world’s toughest rental market?
How China and the US are driving down our dollar
If You're Listening - Why is Russia meddling in West Africa?
Did Putin just kill Prigozhin?
Big supermarket profits and your grocery bills
Why more kids are refusing to go to school
The latest idea to fix the rental crisis
Inside the AFL’s ‘culture of silence’
If You're Listening - How microchip-maker TSMC became the world's most important company
If the law can’t stop Trump, who can?
Lingering questions in the mushroom mystery
Is a Matildas’ win big enough for a day off?
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