The Cost of Living Iceberg
Matt Golding
An overpriced lettuce became the totem for Australia’s economic concerns in June, when a perfect storm of factors – flood-destroyed crops, supply chain interruptions, inflation, COVID-19 outbreaks – saw the leafy vegetable hit $11. Matt Golding’s visual pun played with the imminent threat to the ‘good ship’ Cost of Living posed by the humble ‘iceberg’.
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