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Business● Elevated19m ago · Nov 13, 2026, 2:00 PM

Vanessa delivers pizza after work to pay rent. Many Australians are ‘scrambling’ as cracks appear in the economy

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Guardian Australia · Australia · Oceania

Australians are more worried about the economy than they have been since 2022 as interest rate hikes, price rises and job cuts fuel financial stressGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVanessa Freitas is not feeling optimistic about her one-year-old daughter’s future in Australia.Now an Australian citizen with a white-collar job in Sydney’s CBD, the 37-year-old worked as a nanny and house cleaner after moving from Brazil 13 years ago. Continue reading...

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