More Than Half of Aussie Families Struggling With Cost-of-Living Distress: Report

A woman pays a fruit vendor in a market in Melbourne, Australia, on July 23, 2013. Scott Barbour/Getty Images

Cost-of-living pressures are affecting more than half of Australian families as relief measures from Labor’s last Federal Budget continue to lose household support.

That’s according to a new report by Suicide Prevention Australia, which for the first time, found in the September quarter that 56 percent of Australian families experienced elevated cost-of-living distress “beyond normal levels.”