Call it a rite of passage or a coming of age, but the FiftyUp Club has reached a significant milestone. We sat down with the Federal Health Minister, Peter Dutton, to deliver your message in Canberra this week … and he listened. The Minister warmly welcomed me and my FiftyUp Club Colleague Jess Lindell into his office and he treated […]

Federal Health Minister Peter Dutton, here I come. I am looking forward to our meeting next week, where I hope to be the voice for more than 90,000 FiftyUp Club members on health care costs. Something tells me it will be a very productive meeting. I will bring with me the results of a survey, which more than 11,000 FiftyUps have answered […]

Dear Fellow Members, I write to you this week with a call to action. We have a golden opportunity, which we should share, and not neglect with inaction. Federal Health Minister Peter Dutton has agreed to meet with me in the first week of August when he returns from Glasgow. This is my chance to be your voice ‘one-on-one’ with the man […]

If you’re a FiftyUp Club member, you probably don’t claim much on your car, home and contents insurance. It’s a statistical fact that over-50s are better risks for insurance companies. In fact, it’s one of the reasons we launched the FiftyUp Club. And that’s all the more reason to make sure you’re not paying too much. If you’re not claiming […]

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 […]