Oh, 2017. What a lifetime ago those simpler times feel like. Sophie Monk searched for love on The Bachelorette. Amazon launched Down Under. Donald Trump gave us the term “covfefe”, and Schapelle Corby finally returned to Australia as a free woman 13 years after being arrested in Bali.

I enjoy a walk down memory lane as much as the next person, but the reason for reminiscing on the good old days of life with an iPhone 8 isn’t actually all that good this week. In fact, it’s pretty bloody bad, especially if you’re one of the millions of Australians who are, at best, feeling the economic pinch and, at worst, scraping through our current cost of living hellscape by the skin of........

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