If you are over 50 and in Queensland, it’s been a tough week. For 48 anxious hours, it seemed you were going to cop another financial hit after this week’s State Budget – and we weren’t even going to know the extent of it until at least October1. Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls had made it fuzzy knowing this is Campbell Newman’s […]

More than 13,000 of you signed our petition calling for greater transparency in private health insurance. You overwhelmed us with 10,000 signatures in the first 3 days. At the FiftyUp Club we heard your voice and felt your passion. And as promised, we took your loud and powerful voice to the Health Minister, Peter Dutton. The Ministers’ office responded to […]

There are big changes coming to the way electricity is charged in NSW and Queensland on July 1, and how it affects you will all depend on where you are and what sort of customer you are. Both states will deregulate electricity prices, as Victoria did in 2009 and South Australia did this year. That means no more government price […]

Hello Fellow FiftyUp Club Members, This week I’d like to talk to you about a business expression known as “churn”. Churn is when a company calculates how many customers it has lost versus how many customers it has gained over a period of time. It is the bane of many a corporate executive in Australia and is currently at an […]

As with any Budget, there is good and bad news for FiftyUps and their hip pockets this week. Here is our summary of the measures that could affect FiftyUps in a NEGATIVE way. To read the other side of the story, click on the link at the bottom of this page. The Bad News Pensions: The age pension will be […]