December 22, 2022
This reports explores the cost of living and financial wellbeing during 2022, with a particular focus on renters and mortgaged homeowners given the rapid rise in interest rates.
This reports explores the cost of living and financial wellbeing during 2022, with a particular focus on renters and mortgaged homeowners given the rapid rise in interest rates.
Our research found:
Our findings indicate financial stress is already building – with a cohort of mortgaged homeowners and renters going without delaying meals, medicine and medical care. For those experiencing feeling the cost-of-living crunch:
Ben’s work is focused on consumer choice in complex markets, considering the implications of behavioural economics in the design and stewardship of consumer markets. He was a lead researcher on CPRC’s COVID-19 consumer survey and has managed a number of CPRC’s collaborative research partnership projects with academics at LaTrobe University, University of Technology Sydney and RMIT’s Behavioural Business Lab.
Ben can be reached at: ben.martinhobbs@cprc.org.au
March 16, 2023
Australia’s privacy laws rely on notification and consent as the primary means of protecting consumers. The onus is on consumers to navigate complex privacy protections in a continuously complex digital economy. It is time to consider reforms that hold businesses accountable for how they collect, share and use consumer data. It is time to give regulators the power to pause and assess data practices that are causing or likely to cause consumer harm.
March 29, 2023
This working paper explores consumer sentiment on privacy practices and protections. CPRC conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,000 Australians on their views on how personal information is collected, shared and used by businesses.
