See how the price of everything has changed with inflation
If it feels like (almost) everything is getting more expensive, that's because it is.
Inflation has jumped, putting Australians on alert for another interest rate rise.
The consumer price index rose by 4.3 per cent in the past year, well above the Reserve Bank of Australia's target of 2 to 3 per cent.
Below, we've tracked prices across all kinds of goods and services, including food, electricity, travel and housing.
- You'll notice an increase in automotive fuel. It's higher than a year ago due to the Iran war and has surged in recent months due to the fuel excise cut being ended on August 2.
- There has been a decent rise in the price of games, toys and hobbies as the escalating cost of computer parts is passed onto consumers.
- Electricity has also gone up in the past year, linked to the ending of various government subsidies that were introduced to help cover soaring power costs mostly caused by the war in Ukraine.
- Use the controls to select different time periods and categories.
About the data
- Data is from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), specifically the September 2026 Consumer Price Index release, retrieved via the ABS Data API. The ABC published a version of this article last quarter using data from the June release.
- The change over three months and one year is calculated from monthly CPI data.
- The monthly CPI series is relatively new and only available for all categories since April 2024, so the figures displayed when "Since COVID" is selected use quarterly CPI data from the same September 2026 ABS release.
- In the category "Other food products", n.e.c. stands for "not elsewhere classified".
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