This episode features some of the best conversations of 2023, ABC News Daily will be back on Monday 29th January, 2024. 

We’re in a cost of living crisis and in 2023 we saw multiple interest rate hikes by the RBA, ballooning mortgage repayments for borrowers.

In this episode we explore whether rate hikes are the only way to fight inflation, and ask when our wages will finally catch up.

Featured: 

Michael Janda, ABC senior digital business reporter

Gareth Hutchens, ABC business and economics reporter