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>

This week the ‘boiler-room’ and commission-hungry sales tactics of dodgy insurance salesmen were back in the news, with scams beginning with a knock on the door.  Only last week Origin Energy was fined a record $2 million  for illegal sales tricks,  including multiple breaches of the very laws designed to protect us from dodgy doorknockers. The Federal Court... read more>

Don't be an April Fool: there's no rush to fill up your tank with Guest Columnist Christopher Zinn You might have heard this yarn so often you believe it. You might have even filled up precipitously this week. But it’s official – petrol prices do NOT go up because of holidays or long weekends.  It’s become part of Aussie folklore, and many of us... read more>

It's election time, and a central plank to Premier Mike Baird's campaign is the proposed selling off - or partial leasing, to be precise - of the electricity grid's “poles and wires”.   It's not for us here at the FiftyUp Club to tell you which way to think on the issue, but we would like to help you make an informed decision. So here's our list of pro... read more>

If you blinked last Friday afternoon, you’d have missed it. The Federal Government agreed to put up your private health insurance by an average 6.18%, to take effect from April 1. But don’t be fooled. Most of us FiftyUps will be paying more than the average. We conducted a study around this time last year which found we are paying about one-and-a-half times the average... read more>