650,000 face rates stress

Story date: 2007-11-06 08:38:00
Added on: 2007-11-07 01:00:58

News.com.au - TODAY'S interest rate hike - the tenth in five years - will push more than 650,000 Australians into mortgage stress, housing groups claim. While both Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Peter Costello apologised for the rise, housing groups ...


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