If you've ever taken to Google to try work out how you can save money, you're not alone. Aussies all over the country are searching for cost of living relief at unprecedented rates.
It will be a "close call" when the RBA meets next week, as new figures show inflation has slowed to 7 per cent as cash-strapped Aussies cut their spending.
The lab-grown diamond industry is exploding in popularity as the cost of living crisis bites - but one jeweller says the industry is still being described as "the wild west".
Australia's competition regulator is calling on banks and customers to share their views on the competition and consumer issues affecting how interest rates are set.
A recent analysis by NAB shows there has been a bounce back in businesses collapsing with a huge 30 per cent rise in insolvencies in 2022 after a slowdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Millions of Australians will be hit with a "student debt avalanche", a senator has warned, after a parliamentary inquiry report rejected a proposed law to freeze $74 billion in HECS and HELP loans.
Housing affordability has become a major issue for Australians, but countries across the globe have also been faced with it. This is how some of them have responded.
Australia's two biggest supermarkets have today launched competing strategies to win over customers feeling the pinch during the cost of living crisis.
The outlook for the world economy this year has dimmed in the face of chronically high inflation, rising interest rates and uncertainties, the fund said.
The RBA might have paused its carnival of rate hikes this month but that's no consolation for anyone with a big mortgage and a variable rate home loan.
The increased tax has been described as the equivalent of two Reserve Bank interest rate rises by experts, but economists also say it will save long-term pain.
Up to 250,000 tradies stopped work to rally in cities around Australia on Wednesday, calling for wage increases amid the country's cost-of-living crisis.
Every week or so for the past four years a Victorian mum who goes by the name of Betty ventures out after the shops have closed - and rakes through their bins.
After 12 months of turbocharged rental increases, a new report has warned that millions of tenants across Australia will endure even more pain this year.
In the suburb where Shane Channing lives, rental prices have increased by 60 per cent over the past five years. He says one more increase will leave him homeless.
People should be able to choose whether or not they want to include a parking space in their rental price, experts say after finding that $6 billion worth of off-road parking was going unused.
Australian consumers are expected to spend $1.7 billion on hot cross buns, chocolates and food this easter, according to the Australian Retailers Association.