The Reserve Bank’s own interest rate increases, aimed at bringing #inflation under control, are now fuelling the cost-of-living pressures hitting working #Australians.
> When the ABS factored interest rates into a cost-of-living index, working people with mortgages endured the worst inflation.
"We all feel like this horror is too much to bear, that something desperately has to be done," Surya McEwen said.
The 38-year-old care worker from New South Wales said he was among 1,000 international activists who will set sail for Gaza on one of three ships, carrying 5,500 tonnes of humanitarian aid with them.
#Zomi Frankcom built her life around helping others.
“Food is not just calories,” she told a gathering of donors to her aid agency, World Central Kitchen, in a speech last year. “It’s hope, it’s love, it’s knowing people care.”