The Sydney Morning Herald's Lucy Cormack uncovers the power draining products in your home.  A quick glance around the average home and you will see them. In the kitchen, the living room and the bedroom. They are the hungry devices costing Australian consumers $860 million a year and resulting in almost 2.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions – and that is when they are... read more>

The stakes in this court battle could hardly be higher. A tribunal is deciding if your power bills will actually go down or unbelievably climb by almost $6 billion over the next four years. But given the public anger about bills, which have already doubled in the past five years, it’s all very polite. At the tribunal a smiling informal judge greet us and there’s home-made scon... read more>

Older Australians are demanding more affordable electricity bills, consumer advocacy group FiftyUp Club, will tell the competition tribunal today. The tribunal is opening its doors to consumer to have their say as a major legal battle over power prices enters the community consultation phase. More than 8,000 older Australians gave their opinion on the affordability of electricity in two s... read more>

Consumers have 2 more days to have their say on soaring electricity prices in NSW, before they have their “day in court” on Thursday. The tribunal regulating competition in Australia is opening its doors to the community and asking them what they think about electricity prices. The 127,000-member FiftyUp Club is now canvassing consumers’ views and preparing a submission ... read more>

Over-50s represent more than half of Australia’s buying power and when it comes to being energy efficient and saving money on household bills, they stand to benefit more than any other group. It is hard to believe, but a recent survey of 3,500 FiftyUp Club households found more than half are switching off their heaters, and suffering in the cold, in order to cut their electricity ... read more>