People in regional Australia are finding it harder than capital city residents to pay their electricity bills, a consultants’ report shows.
The ‘high cost of living is hurting families’ is not just a political catchcry used in the battle to win votes.
It’s a reality for a third of all Australians, who reported to an Ernst and Young survey that they missed paying a power bill in the past 12 months.
Nationally, 60 per cent of those people said they couldn’t afford the payment.
But the starkest finding was that it was tougher for regional households.
