Most older Australians have worked hard all their lives and paid their taxes but now we’re being warned that the retirement age is (again) set to be lifted to 70.  Ask anyone over 50 looking for work and they will tell you they want to keep working – if only they can find an appropriate job. In 2015, then-Age Discrimination Minister Susan Ryan found that more than one in every 4 workers o... read more>

Most over-50s in Australia are facing constant strain on their budgets, with our new cost of living survey revealing health insurance is the household bill causing the most pain, shortly followed by electricity.  The FiftyUp Club’s Annual Cost of Living Survey has now had almost 5000 responses and reveals that; 66% find the cost of living ‘very difficult’ or ‘quite difficult’, Health... read more>

A warning from police this week about using your phone behind the wheel...  Young people might seem like they are glued to their phones these days but police say that behind the wheel P-platers resist using them because they do not want to accumulate demerit points. Chief Inspector Phil Brooks told us on the Daily Drive show this week that "The worst offenders are the older drivers on our... read more>

BRUCE ‘Crazy’ Leigh has played more games in the brutal sport of rugby than most can believe. The energetic 65-year-old notched up his 800th game with the Canterbury Berries recently.  The club believes his big number is unheard of for a single club in any contact sport in Australia or possibly even the world. As a 21-year-old, Leigh was a winger when he first laced up his boots for the B... read more>

We launched a new special offer on Life Insurance for members this week, and it’s been inundated with interest. It’s just as well, because reports this week said scientific developments could make life insurance premiums higher in future. Research by the Institute of Actuaries of Australia predicted that as predictive genetic testing becomes more popular, claims against insurance policies co... read more>