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Is inflation really just 1.9%?

Most people are right to believe that their inflation rate is not 1.9% as the official ABS data show. As different people spend different shares of their income on different items than the ABS assumes, their own inflation rates are different. But most people’s inflation rate is still lower than they think.

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