Tag: cost of living
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Study, work, worry, repeat: financial hardship is consuming university students
The rising cost-of-living is placing pressure on everyone, but university students are more vulnerable than most.
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Report finds nearly half of young Australians feel robbed of their youth
A recent report has revealed young people in Australia feel they are missing out on their youth due to increased pressures such as the cost-of-living crisis.
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“The sky’s the limit”: USASA trials op shop at City West campus to ease cost-of-living pressures
USASA is trialling an op shop at The University of South Australia’s City West campus until the end of July. If the shop can get enough donations and volunteers, it will provide long-term cost-of-living relief to students, with potential to expand across other UniSA campuses.
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Dunstan by-election guide: cost-of-living edition
A by-election in the eastern Adelaide seat of Dunstan will be held on March 23 to replace former South Australian premier Steven Marshall. Here’s what you need to know.
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Used car prices are falling: what does this mean for young people?
Last year, OTR reported a shortage of used cars on the market within young people’s budgets. Now, used car prices are falling for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Is now a good time for young people to buy? OTR journalist Alana Pahor investigates.
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Your student debt increases by 7.1 per cent today: what is being done politically and how will it affect you?
The 7.1 per cent indexation rate for HECS-HELP is an added stressor for many university students and graduates following recent record inflation and cost-of-living pressures. OTR journalist Robert Hicks asks experts and political parties how this indexation will affect students, and what they are planning to do — or not do.
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