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Rising prices... join the dots!

21 September 2026

Everything costs more today.

Mince is up to $34 per kilo. Petrol is well over $3 per litre. Electricity bills keep going up. There is very little that hasn't been touched by the finger of price-hikes.

Unfortunately, incomes have not risen in concert with rising living costs.

This leaves us all poorer and in some cases really makes it hard to put money aside for emergencies.

All of this has been acknowledged but I haven't seen a lot of analysis as to exactly why we've seen this massive change in recent times.

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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