Last year, the ABC issued a call-out asking readers to share their stories about how they were coping with rising interest rates and prices for everyday goods and services. Here's what some of them are doing now, nearly 12 months later, to make ends meet.
Their weekly grocery shop was costing more and more, and Akila was spending $200 a week driving from their home in Wyndham Vale, on Melbourne's western fringe, to Waurn Ponds for work.
Nearly 12 months later, the Ganesuns have found more ways to cut costs but have also had financial setbacks. Overall, Vinu feels like the family is still treading water.But Vinu's father died suddenly, so the family is now applying for a permanent residency visa for his mother and expect the process will cost many thousands of dollars."We are OK at the moment, but I'm a day-rate worker so if I don't have work, that changes everything.
The 60-year-old earns about $60,000 a year as a support worker in the education sector and owns her own home, but she is also the sole carer for her adult daughter who has disabilities. Among other cost-saving measures, she's now virtually stopped buying meat, is catching public transport to work, and uses her car only when absolutely necessary.
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