Cost of living concerns does little to dampen Christmas cheer in Sydney

(11 Dec 2024)
AUSTRALIA CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 28 November 2024
1. Various of Santa Claus and Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney, on a sleigh in the streets of Sydney
2. Christmas marching band
3. Santa shaking hands
4. Christmas marching band
5. Crowd waiting for the lighting of the Martin Place Christmas tree
6. Various of lighting up of a Christmas tree with fireworks
7. Various of lit up tree


ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 6 November 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Fleur Brown, Australian Retailers Association Chief Industry Affairs Officer:
"Households are managing incredibly tight budgets. In many cases."

9. People walking in Pitt Street Mall
10. Various of Christmas decorations
11. People walking in Pitt Street Mall
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Fleur Brown, Australian Retailers Association Chief Industry Affairs Officer:
"Many of our Australian cohorts are still spending. But they're doing it, you know, with a greater eye on the budget. They're thinking about their savings. They're not sure what the outlook looks like. We've got no sense of when interest rates will fall. So, there's a lot of caution."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 28 November 2024
13. Various of Clover Moore addressing a crowd in Martin Place
14. Onlookers
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Clover Moore, Sydney Lord Mayor:
"Well, post COVID we really welcomed the fact that people came back to the city and the city came alive and that's happened and that's good. But you know, there are lots of issues around cost of living and housing."

16. Various of Martin Place Christmas tree
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Ava, Sydney resident:
"Cost of living to go down."

18. Martin Place Christmas tree
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ava, Sydney resident:
"If you just look around the city, the amount of people that are homeless and, yeah, just trying to pick up extra shifts and get by for the summer and Christmas is, yeah."

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan, Sydney resident:
"Compared to last year and other years something like that. So yeah, cost of living here is like, it's a little bit higher."

21. Christmas tree and sleigh
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Florian, German tourist:
"I think that people forget the inflation at Christmas Day. So, they will spend many money for holiday gifts."

23. Santa Claus arriving at Martin Place
24. Santa Claus
25. Santa Claus, Clover Moore and Kristina Keneally (former senator)
26. Santa Claus, Clover Moore and Kristina Keneally saying (English) “Merry Christmas”
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Clover Moore, Sydney Lord Mayor:
"We're putting a lot into Christmas this year and celebrations because we want to give people a joyful end to this pretty horrific year and bring them together with their families and show our gratitude. We have so much happening here in Australia."

28. Various of Santa Claus, Clover Moore and Kristina Keneally
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Clover Moore, Sydney Lord Mayor:
"We have a lot to celebrate about being in this part of the world at this time and to help people, you know, cope with cost of living, all our events are free."

30. Various of choir next to Christmas tree


ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 6 November 2024


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