More than 10,000 Victorians have joined the FiftyUp Club in ?two weeks?, to help unlock the group discounts, products and services that over-50s deserve. The FiftyUp Club is a consumer movement that lobbies businesses and governments on behalf of more than 100,000 members aged 50-plus. Almost a year after it began in NSW, the Club launched in Victoria last week, seeking […]

When it comes to your energy bills, it looks like Gas is the new Electricity. Average gas bills are expected to increase more than $300 a year in Melbourne and over $100 a year in Sydney and Adelaide, according to the latest Grattan Institute report released this week. The increases are due to Queensland’s LNG exports starting at the beginning […]

Dear Fellow Members, The death of Gough Whitlam this week (may he rest in peace), had all of us thinking of different times. Like many FiftyUps, you may have found yourself rewinding 40 years and reminiscing about how different it was to live in Australia in the mid-1970s. At the FiftyUp Club, conversation turned to whether we were better off. […]

It’s the graph some car insurers don’t want you to see. The diagram above clearly shows who are the safest drivers on the road – FiftyUps. Drivers in their 50s, 60s and 70s have fewer accidents, according to a report from the Older Driver Safety Advisory Committee‘s Report to the Queensland Department of Transport, in December 2011. So why are they […]

The Internet has completely revolutionised the way event tickets are bought and sold. No more standing in lines for hours – unless you are getting an iPhone 6. The Internet allows buyers to obtain any last-minute tickets or hunt down those hard to find, sold-out event tickets. With international musical acts visiting in the spring and summer, and finals fever […]