Minji's grocery bill for her business has risen by $1,000 a week as cost-of-living rises become unmanageable

There are 1.2 million Queenslanders reliant on income support, according to the Queensland Council of Social Services [QCOSS], and charities like the Smith Family and St Vincent De Paul Society are struggling under the weight of demand.

On the home front, the weekly grocery shop for her and her five-year-old daughter and six-month old son has almost doubled to $180, even after cutting out those little treats.Minji Lim in Rockhampton has felt the food price hikes in her two small businesses, with her food overheads jumping from $2000 a week, to $3000 or more.

Chief executive Aimee McVeigh said that was already out of date, with the figure jumping to 10 per cent. "[But] there's nothing I can do, this is what it is. I've just got to find the house and then just got to keep trying.""[And] that is hitting people on low incomes the hardest," she said.Sunshine Coast couple Karis Ramsay and James Porter downsized from a four-bedroom home to a two-bedroom apartment to reduce their cost of living.

The Laws on retirement must change! Pensions must be paid to Australians outside of the country,trying to survive the cost of living in Australia! Every country in the world pays pensions to their people who paid their taxes for their whole lives,& choose to live abroad?

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