Some of you noticed, some of you didn’t. But a couple of weeks ago on July 1, your power bill went up. In Queensland, it went up by an average of almost $200 a year. Australia gave Tony Abbott a mandate last September to abolish the Carbon Tax on the basis it would reduce our power bills. Clive Palmer has now […]

Is Today the Day?  The latest news reports the Senate is working through proposed amendments to the carbon tax repeal bills and is likely to vote before 2:00pm eastern time.  Since Clive Palmer’s spectacular double back-flip on the Carbon Tax, it’s been impossible to work out what will happen next. It was only two weeks ago that Palmer announced, alongside Al Gore, that […]

There wouldn’t be many FiftyUp Club members amongst us who don’t remember something of the sixties and the dreaded days of Compulsory National Service. I say dreaded because sentiment was turning against the Vietnam War, and the Australian people gave Gough Whitlam a mandate to end Compulsory National Service and conscription, which he did in December 1972. Our parents breathed […]

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 […]

I will begin with a question which may not seem at all odd to many of you FiftyUps. What do volunteer insurance, travel insurance and income protection insurance all have in common? According to Susan Ryan, the Age Discrimination Commissioner, they are all “problematic” for those of us over the age of 50. Here is what she had to say: […]