Cost of living: how to beat Australia’s soaring inflation and cut your everyday expenses

Rising fuel, food and energy prices have people meticulously tracking their spending and struggling to make rent, with welfare recipients hit hardest

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Joining co-ops, quitting the gym and growing vegetables for the first time: Australians are finding new ways to save money and beat soaring inflation.

From electricity to petrol and food, the cost of living is rising steeply, and with the months ahead unlikely to offer a reprieve from increasing hip pocket pressure, Australians are looking at ways to ease pressure on their household budgets.