Cost of Living
Reporting and analysis focused on inflation, affordability, wages, housing and financial pressure.
Society
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May 25, 2026
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22 min read
The Yarn Briefing | Issue 017: The Paper Trail
In today’s briefing: Albanese leans on biography to defend a bruising budget, Labor rewrites the rules for investors, housing approvals expose the supply gap, migration adds demand the system has not built for, inflation keeps auditing households by receipt, Chris Bowen’s climate travel meets the power meter, and the court list turns grim.
Society
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May 13, 2026
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4 min read
The Yarn Briefing | Issue 005: Australia’s Priorities Problem
Labor promised affordability and stability. Australians got higher debt, collapsing ownership and another economic bait-and-switch after the votes were counted.
