Australians are more worried about the economy than they have been since 2022 as interest rate hikes, price rises and job cuts fuel financial stress

Vanessa Freitas is not feeling optimistic about her one-year-old daughter’s future in Australia.

Now an Australian citizen with a white-collar job in Sydney’s CBD, the 37-year-old worked as a nanny and house cleaner after moving from Brazil 13 years ago.

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