If you feel like your standard of living has been getting worse over the past year or so, you’re not alone and you’re not wrong.
High inflation, rising interest rates and rent prices mean your relative income is likely to have fallen dramatically. Unless of course you’re a baby boomer - many in that generation are still living it up.
Today, the ABC’s national political lead and Insiders’ host, David Speers, on what the government is doing on the cost-of-living and what it could do to close the generational gap.
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David Speers, ABC national political lead and Insiders’ host
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