Research this week by Professor Allan Fels found some households could be paying as much as $1700 more than an identical home next door for Home & Contents Insurance!  The findings have reignited calls for an independent comparison website for home and car insurance, and the industry is pushing back as always. Last November Senator Nick Xenophon put a motion to the Upper House for an ... read more>

When we launch offers such as the Fair Go campaign many members are generous enough to fill in the survey so we can learn more about what makes you tick. As we are about the reveal the offers early next week in terms of the power, home contents/motor insurance and mobile providers it’s worth seeing what you said. Some answers are not surprising in that 58% find their electricity bill to b... read more>

One of former PM Tony Abbott’s greatest achievements for consumers was in setting up the website privatehealth.gov.au. Unlike any other comparison website, it contains information about all the products of all the private health funds (and there are over 30). If you are prepared to do your research, you are likely to save a bundle. There is a similar government website for energy plans. And ... read more>

  The Federal Government should force the big banks to introduce tracker loans as part of a package of measures to curtail their massive profits according to Kevin Young, President of Property Club, Australia’s largest independent property group. Tracker loans are popular in the UK and Ireland where banks have to guarantee they will follow interest rate movements by the Central  Bank. ... read more>

The sharing economy has long been viewed as the domain of the young and hip – but that may be changing. Don’t be surprised if your next Uber driver has silver hair. An increasing number of older Australians are opening their wallets to services like Airbnb, Airtasker and Uber – and their earnings from these services are increasing, too. So says the RateSetter Sharing Economy Trust Index, a bian... read more>