'Sometimes I go to the park and scream': The cost-of-living crunch pushing households to the brink

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'Sometimes I go to the park and scream': The cost-of-living crunch pushing households to the brink
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These people say they're overworked, underpaid and fed up. The reason behind their frustrations is on the rise in Australia, and rated the number-one issue for voters in the country's most populous, and expensive state.

Teachers, nurses and transport workers have all gone on strike.

Last year they passed significant stamp duty reform which gives first home buyers the choice of paying a smaller annual land tax. "I don't think the state government can fix anything ... it's more what the Reserve Bank is doing," he said.Andy works as an actor, writer and voice over artist, as well as at a gin distillery."I do a lot of my jobs at night when my son Orlando is asleep," he said.The single dad plans to rent out his home and move into a share house.

"I do worry with the cost of living that at some point I'll have to work even more and spend less time with my son," he said.While there's no data on how many people in NSW work multiple jobs, the ABS says 2.4 million people nationally held two or more in the 2019-2020 financial year.

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