Rising interest rates and unemployment won't be far from the minds of those who lived through Australia's last major recession in the 1990s. But in 2023, with a debt-laden nation paying off homes many bought at record high prices, rising rates mean a new type of misery. Australia's housing market has completely changed the nature of our economy. And as Alan Kohler reports, many of the old economic rules may no longer apply.

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