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Sai Akunuri balances full-time work in a supermarket with Uber driving.

Sai made an impossible choice about his health. Now he’s afraid to sleep at night

After Sai Akunuri bought his first family home, he was faced with a hard decision: Keep his life-saving diabetes device, or pay his mortgage.

  • Rachel Rasker

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Bob Barrett.

Experts spent years trying to change the way people travel. The fuel crisis did it in less than a month

Nearly half of Australians have changed the way they travel since the war in Iran began, but a clear regional and metropolitan divide has appeared.

  • Gemma Grant
The budget in charts.

How exactly is your money being spent? Five charts that really explain the budget

Here are the charts that tell you the budget’s outlook for households and the economy.

  • Clancy Yeates and Craig Butt
Intergenerational inequity

Tax reform is not enough – to help the young, wages need to buy more

With inflation surging again, it is critical that government gets control over the high prices hitting workers’ incomes.

  • Alison Pennington
The cast of Birthright.

‘Shafted’: The Baby Boomers who won’t help their kids buy a home

A new Australian dark comedy film explores the generational tension between Baby Boomers and Millennials over homeownership.

  • Caroline Zielinski
Letch

Australia teeters on the brink of a populist uprising led by a longtime racist

And the Coalition is on the brink of a nervous breakdown.

  • Peter Hartcher
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Spirit flew its last flights this month after pioneering the ultra-low cost airline model decades before.
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A nickel and dime pioneer went broke. That’s not good news

Artificial intelligence was meant to end the “rip-off economy”, but it could also supercharge a pricing strategy that has gone so mainstream it killed one of its pioneers.

  • Nick Bonyhady
The Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga.

Death in a homeless camp is the other side of the housing crisis

A baby has died in a homeless camp in Wagga Wagga, a regional city that is experiencing a property boom.

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The childcare sector is facing a reckoning after a slew of scandals.

A year after scandal, childcare giant faces financial peril and mass closures

G8 Education might have to dump thousands of kids from care to stay profitable. That comes at a cost to parents.

  • Colin Kruger
WA rental affordability has ‘collapsed’.

WA renters paint grim picture as affordability ‘collapses’ across the state

Perth renter Nicolette Murphy is on a disability pension after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2010. Almost her entire pay cheque has to be used on rent. 

  • Holly Thompson and Cameron Myles