Cash-strapped Australians are cutting back on items normally thought to be household essentials, such as personal and household cleaning products, leaked supermarket sales figures show.
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Higher borrowing costs have taken a large bite out of property prices in recent months, and with more rate hikes to come we likely haven’t seen the bottom of this current downturn.