Lifestyle

A more modest lifestyle now costs $52,690 a year for a homeowner couple and $36,548 for a single, up about 5.4 per cent and 5.9 per cent respectively. Headline inflation was 3.8 per cent.
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Ryan Johnson

Seniors hit as retirement costs outrun inflation

A modest retirement is now rising almost 6 per cent a year, outpacing inflation, while renters need thousands more than homeowners and fuel costs have climbed again.

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Why everyone suddenly wants to stay in a daggy Aussie motel

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A tourist who fell to her death from the cliffs above Kelingking Beach in Nusa Penida has been identified as a young Queensland woman.

Desperate final moments before Aussie’s cliffside death

Australia
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Travel
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Queensland’s HOTA is among the galleries driving traffic to the regions.

The remote Aussie galleries punching well above their weight

Travel
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Wellbeing

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Wellbeing
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Food
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Four question to move beyond small talk and make friends

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Property

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It may sound dramatic, but the numbers make it difficult to conclude anything other than this: housing confidence is heading towards a cliff.
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Confidence in Australian housing is heading towards a cliff

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Mortgage applications from first homebuyers are in the worst freefall since 2022 and sales of brand new homes have tanked, calling into question Labor’s Budget plans to boost housing supply.

REVEALED: Figures expose dramatic shift in housing market

Australia
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Homeowners in this Australian state are $33K worse off

Australia
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Claiming a slowdown in property price growth would give more young people a chance at home ownership is insulting our collective intelligence.
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Why Labor’s housing affordability promise is hollow

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Food

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Food
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Food
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Wine

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Late actor’s business booms after sudden death

Wine
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Marc Fennell has a new podcast out, Corked.

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Tariff risks US market crash for humble Aussie wines

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Aussie wine back on China's shelves, but will it sell?

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Motoring

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EV sales have overtaken petrol cars for the first time.

Aussies accelerate away from petrol as EV sales soar

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Car maker recalls 1.3m vehicles over fears they could catch fire

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KFC, BYD to deliver 9-minute feed and fuel drive thru

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Over 13,000 Toyota Hilux models have been recalled.

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Home

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Retailers, including Bunnings, have started removing popular bait products.

‘Unacceptable risk’: Item stripped from Bunnings’ shelves

Australia
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The tremors were felt as far away as Kalgoorlie and Perth.

Rumbling earthquake recorded in Wheatbelt, felt in Perth

Home
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The council aims to make all new homes, offices and hotels fully-electric by 2027.

Huge change for new homes as major council imposes ban

Australia
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Extreme weather events are pushing up insurance costs beyond what some households can afford.

Aussies giving up key protections in cost-of-living crunch

Politics
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Garden

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Rare flower that smells like rotting corpse begins to bloom

Garden
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Better Homes and Gardens designer and decorator Juliet Love.

Juliet Love shares tips summer entertaining ease

Food
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Salvia has to be the No.1 easy-care flowering perennial.

Perennials in Australia get a bad rap. They shouldn’t

Garden
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Fashion

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Culture
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Galliano quits Met show amid outrage on anti-Semitic remarks

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