After a three-year cost-of-living crisis, see-sawing inflation, and higher interest rates – are Australians really feeling as confident as the household consumption figures released last week seem to indicate or does the dip into their savings an indication of how people are still struggling? 

This whitepaper unpacks the results of our fourth wave of Read the Room research which started back in July 2022 and surveyed 4,000 Australians to reveal the shifting dynamics of household behaviour in 2025.