Majority of Aussies can’t make ends meet, new survey finds

More than half of Australians do not currently earn enough money to make ends meet, scrimping on health, cancelling insurance and leaning on buy now, pay later services to get by.

This is according to dentsu’s second annual proprietary consumer sentiment report, Read the Room, which surveyed more than 4,300 people to understand how and where they plan to shift their spending, in the grip of the current financial crisis.