Australia's economy expanded 2.1% in the year to June, outpacing modest expectations even as households navigated the competing pressures of high fuel costs, geopolitical disruption, and elevated interest rates. Beneath the headline figure lies a portrait of deliberate adaptation: Australians curtailing overseas travel and petrol consumption while pivoting decisively toward electric and hybrid vehicles. It is the kind of growth that speaks less of abundance than of a society quietly recalibrating its habits in response to a world that has grown more expensive and less certain.