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to say that the vast majority of Australians are currently ‘feeling the pinch’. According to recent commentary, the living standards of middle Australians have stagnated, our children are facing a world of shrinking opportunity, and they’re likelier to slip into poverty than the middle classes of all other advanced nations, bar Greece and Latvia (Uren, The Australian, 18 Apr 2019). That’s all fairly depressing stuff. And it helps explain why consumers are reacting by shutting their wallets (Wright, SMH,
