A family-owned suburban hot bread shop has revealed telling signs about the worsening cost of living crisis.
Yen Lim and her husband Hay, who have run Lim’s Hot Bread shop at Eastwood in Sydney’s north-west since 1994, have seen their electricity bill double since last year.
If those prices were passed on to customers, a pork crackling roll would cost $16 – but the small business owners who came to Australia to escape tyranny in Vietnam and Cambodia ‘don’t have