Anglicare Australia

And another one was Anglicare and one year their Anglicare's Christmas cheer program, like collecting food for people for Christmas that couldn't afford it, running behind their target.

So we ended up having in our house a couple of Anglican Anglicare donation bins for people to come and bring food around if they wanted perishable stuff and pop it in the bin.

I had to get that bin changed over about seven times.

And

to donate to our bins.

Like there was bags and bags and bags of stuff, of canned stuff and boxes of chocolates, the whole bit.

And they wanted to put it into the bins to go to Anglican.

And it's like, this is awesome.

When interest rates rise, it does make it just continually feel... out of reach and out of reach and out of reach.

The last time interest rates were this high was in November 2011, but Casey Chambers from Anglicare Australia says families now face a different situation.

While things were hard in 2011, which is when interest rates were last at this level, it wasn't as hard as now.

We were just coming out of the global financial crisis, but even so, things were easier.

When... middle-class people with jobs are saying that it's hard to get the basics, then you're kind of dipping into crisis territory.

Anglicare Australia's 2026 rental affordability snapshot showed that a full-time worker on minimum wage could only afford 0.5% of listings on like realestate.com and stuff like that.

And couples with two wages were only able to afford 14.8% of listings.

So that's pretty wild.