Ahead of this month's Northern Territory election, voters worried about the rising cost of living say they feel neither of the major parties have committed enough to tackle the problem.
Renters , families, pensioners and business owners are calling for both sides of NT politics to dig deeper to reduce cost of living pressures.
The flatmates wanted to stay in Darwin long-term, but after their apartment lease ended, they were shocked to discover they couldn't find, or afford, another rental property. He said he hadn't been wooed by a Country Liberal Party promise to reduce payroll tax, calling it a "tax on jobs" that did not go far enough.Mr Hanna said politicians should tackle the high cost of flights to and from the NT, which he believes is deterring both visitors and people considering settling in the territory.
"These politicians … they're not interested in what we're getting, they're not arguing about the price of bread."He said NT politicians should lobby Canberra to increase welfare payments.While people in urban areas are struggling with living costs, in remote communities, food and other essentials can be up to 50 per cent higher.
"There's no improvements, regardless of which governments keep promising improvements — there's no actions.""The Centrelink payment is not much, individual payments need to go up," he said.ALPA chief executive Alistair King said staff were seeing the impact of cost of living pressures in customers' purchases.
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