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$700k worth of savings tips from the government

$700k worth of savings tips from the government

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you would have noticed all the talk about energy prices. If you have been off the grid (pun intended), there’s no hiding from your energy bill, which will find you eventually. 

And so will the Federal Government’s latest $700,000 ad campaign!

Launched this month, the Powering Forward Campaign reportedly cost tax-payers $300,000 for 60 seconds of airtime during the AFL & NRL Grand Finals, and as much as $700,000 in fees to a Melbourne ad agency.

There's some useful information buried in there, but it's hidden behind propaganda pushing the government's energy policy credentials.

What do you think of the campaign?

Our take? The website contains some useful info for people wanting to save on power bills, for example it links to the Energy Made Easy comparison site and the Victorian Switchon site to compare offers.

It also contains energy efficiency tips for households, which can be handy.

But all that useful stuff is buried behind the silly “powering forward” slogan and some bumph about the Government’s Snowy Hydro 2.0 and gas reservation policies.

They’re important, but we’d like to see the moneysaving info up front and centre!

Here’s something else you can do to save.

A couple of months back, the Fiftyup Club started our Power-Up Campaign,  which now boasts a staggering 50,000 registrations nationally That tells us that you do want to do something about energy prices even if it’s just to send a message to power companies that enough is enough.

While Australia may rank second in the world for quality-of-life, we rate first in the world for the highest energy prices. Data from the Carbon + Energy Markets' MarkIntell service says we’re ahead of Germany, Denmark and Italy with 4 Australian states in the top ten (click here to see the list).

This despite Australia having every energy resource available in the world including coal, wind, solar, nuclear and sea-water hydro power.

What can you do? It’s as easy as picking up the phone, calling your energy retailer and asking for a better deal. Don’t take no for an answer. The energy market has never been so competitive and you can get results, with many members reporting savings in the hundreds of dollars.

Click here to see the latest Fiftyup Club energy offers, extended for a limited time only


 

 

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Valerie
Valerie from VIC commented:

Health Insurance better designed or all age groups. Like the idea of no claim bonus! Interested to see what offers you come up with aimed at people who are also doing ok but heading towards retirement hoping to enjoy life without struggle. 

Angela
Angela from NSW commented:

To reduce private health insurance premiums through a 'no claim bonus' incentive. 

Margaret
Margaret from NSW commented:

Reduction on all insurances house and contents, car, health fund all have risen dramatically. Always check with several companies for pricing of insurance and call back chosen one for a better deal it will generally work. 

GREG
GREG from NSW commented:

TO REDUCE ALL INSURANCE PREMIUMS 

Anne
Anne from NSW commented:

Savings on utilities and insurance 

Graeme
Graeme from NSW commented:

Savings on various bills and insurances due to people power, in other words discounted deals for which members will support and keep going. 

gi
gi from NSW commented:

Definately need more say with a discount on home and content insurance - it is soooooo exoensive! 

GABRIELLE
GABRIELLE from NSW commented:

Making large organisations realise that (a) it's easy to obtain clients but harder to keep them and (b) start thinking of the customer and not the shareholder (see Suncorp's Annual Report). Without customers, no company, nothing for the shareholders. Remember what the NSW Transport Minister did in the mid '80s. Reduced the fares considerably but doubled the patronage. There's something to be learnt from that. 

Robert
Robert from NSW commented:

Private Health up every year above the so called inflation rate, Home & Contents as well and Electricity and Gas a complete joke. 

Philip
Philip from NSW commented:

Collective buying power and loyalty discounts. For example, we been with NRMA for home contents insurance for the past 26 years and over that time it has never gone down. In today's dollars we have spend in the order of $48,000 and we have had one claim of $3,100. 

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