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But we also have a housing construction crisis: planning freezes; rising materials prices; builder bankruptcies; subbies raising prices to recoup lost income; increasingly difficult building regulations. Costs are up to 50%, starts have dropped by 50%.
Laura Redgrove's return to the North West has been highly rewarding.
Mining companies are spending big, transforming harsh outback mining camps with luxury accommodation, Olympic-sized swimming pools and restaurants in a bid to turn them into female-friendly workplaces.
Economists have spent much of the year asking why Australians have failed to curb our spending habits even as cost-of-living pressures reach uncomfortable heights.
Known for its religious outreach, the Chabad movement often sets up outposts in towns with small Jewish populations, but this effort in the outback takes the (honey) cake