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An ‘onslaught of punches’: is this week the cost-of-living tipping point for many Australian households?

Summary

Cost of Living CrisisFarmingInterest RatesPetrol PricesEconomy

Launched in 2001, the Hilda survey follows the lives of more than 17,000 Australians each year.

The report’s most important sentence, shortened and in plain words. How

The third-generation southern New South Wales grains farmer and vice-president of NSW Farmers was already feeling the pressure of the cost-of-living crisis, compounded by rising fuel costs that make it harder for him to do his job. For Everitt….

Headline check

One of the two things this headline claims is not in the report.

  • The headline puts “‘onslaught of punches’” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.

Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked

This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 1510-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

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The Guardian Australiaas they published this story 11.6

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