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
Higgins, Lehrmann and the defamation trial
Alan Kohler’s plan to freeze house prices
Laura Tingle on the detainee release ‘debacle’
What renting is doing to your DNA
Trump, ‘vermin’ and Nazi rhetoric
The Israel-Hamas hostage deal explained
Why we fell for America’s Black Friday sales
What China’s warship did to Australian divers
Why you’re not getting cost-of-living help
Is the new COVID wave worth worrying about?
Can Israel justify raiding a hospital?
The best defence for this summer’s bushfires
Protests, extremism and the Israel-Gaza war
How one bank tried to bury a scandal
Has Israel gone too far?
The polls pointing to a Trump 2024 win
The day Optus went dark
Another rate rise, when will they fall?
Erin Patterson accused of murder, what now?
How Netanyahu changed Israel
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