Last week’s Q4 national accounts release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that real per capita household consumption fell by 2.5% in 2023, which was the weakest result since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis outside of the pandemic: The ABS’s January Household Spending Indicator also revealed that, in nominal terms, household spending increased
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