Here at the FiftyUp Club, we’ve been banging on about healthcare costs for the over-50s all year. Never more so than when Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey announced plans for a $7 co-payment every time we visit the GP, X-ray or pathologist as part of the Budget earlier this year. It’s been nearly three months since we travelled to Canberra to […]

The home phone is fast becoming a thing of the past for many households with around 3.3 million Australians (that’s 19%) ditching the landline altogether and relying solely on mobile phones to stay in touch, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority. If you have both a mobile phone and landline, you are paying for two connections when you […]

More than 10,000 Victorians have joined the FiftyUp Club in ?two weeks?, to help unlock the group discounts, products and services that over-50s deserve. The FiftyUp Club is a consumer movement that lobbies businesses and governments on behalf of more than 100,000 members aged 50-plus. Almost a year after it began in NSW, the Club launched in Victoria last week, seeking […]

When it comes to your energy bills, it looks like Gas is the new Electricity. Average gas bills are expected to increase more than $300 a year in Melbourne and over $100 a year in Sydney and Adelaide, according to the latest Grattan Institute report released this week. The increases are due to Queensland’s LNG exports starting at the beginning […]

Dear Fellow Members, The death of Gough Whitlam this week (may he rest in peace), had all of us thinking of different times. Like many FiftyUps, you may have found yourself rewinding 40 years and reminiscing about how different it was to live in Australia in the mid-1970s. At the FiftyUp Club, conversation turned to whether we were better off. […]