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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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Judy
Judy from NSW commented:

Hopefully get lower prices for food and fuel, all insurances,vet bills. water and gas. Just about averything that go up annually. 

Therese
Therese from NSW commented:

Better interest rates on our Bank's Term Deposit since we rely on the interest paid to us to live on. 

John
John from ACT commented:

Ensure a solid support base for realistic cost of living pricing. 

Tony
Tony from NSW commented:

greater recognition for our age group and REAL discounts not false ones. 

Ian
Ian from NSW commented:

Lower living costs -Water-Electricity -Gas-Rates-Fuel-Insurance-Grocery items 

Gavin
Gavin from NSW commented:

Gavin NSW A better deal for long term customers, after being a customers for many years we should be entitled to better deal. 

James
James from NSW commented:

To provide a fairer base of costs and stop subsidising those who are not contributing because they choose not to. Our contributions have been made through years of work, while we gain no benefit from saving to support ourselves through self funding. 

Julie
Julie from NSW commented:

Insurances with significant changes which are noticeably on going year by year not just a carrot to get you to join and then be hit by huge rises when your up for renewal in the year after and so on. 

Sandra
Sandra from NSW commented:

we need something for over 50 thankyou 

Loretta
Loretta from NSW commented:

My hope is that with the strength of numbers, we can pressure insurance companies, energy authorities and governments to give older Australians a better deal. We are a generation of NON whingers we had no first home buyers grants, no childcare rebates, we struggled through the huge financial crisus of the 80s and survived by tightening our belts even tighter and digging even deeper. We working women often used what super we had, to pay deposits on our first home and stopped working to raise our children to school age. We have earned the right for a better deal, as we get older. 

Julie
Julie from NSW replied to Loretta:

you said it well sister 

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