The storm that struck the Hunter, Central Cost and Sydney regions Monday, 20th April 2015, left thousands of homes and businesses without power and SES and firefighters flooded with calls for assistance. Networks NSW estimated that the overall repair bill to electricity networks for Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy would be many millions of dollars. However, last Thursday, Networks NSW chief... read more>

  As far as we know Glenn Stevens, the governor of the Reserve Bank, hasn’t yet done the FiftyUp Budget survey but he’s certainly explaining, if not quite feeling, your pain. He might even like to see the results. This week he told a conference that retirees now face tough choices because of very low interest rates meaning they need to take ‘more risk to fund th... read more>

The people have spoken: loudly, quickly, wisely and above all honestly in our annual Budget survey. You’ve even thrown in a few surprises. The responses were coming in at the rate of 100 an hour at some stages. At the time of writing, more than 7,500 of you have given the pollies a piece of your mind. Given the wide-ranging nature of the questions, and the fact some responses are st... read more>

As debate hots up before the Federal Budget, it’s time to gauge the views of those most affected by the hip-pocket issues being discussed – the over-50s. The 120,000-member FiftyUp Club has today launched its second annual pre-Budget survey, asking the over-50s what they think about: Pensions and superannuation Negative gearing, The GST and Working to age 70 Cons... read more>

According to ABC Online Lateline, Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane says motorists may face a 2c rise on petrol prices to help the government meet the "extraordinarily expensive" international standards on oil reserve capacity. [1] Mr Macfarlane said the cost of complying would be "billions and billions and billions of dollars" and questioned whether Au... read more>