Blogs by Tag: budget
Federal Budget Highlights 2022-23
The Federal Government has delivered a big-spending 2022 budget, taking immediate steps to reduce cost of living pressures for working Australians while implementing a range of massive infrastructu…
“Tap and go” and then what?
Talk about hammering the plastic. In November 2021, Australia’s 13.2 million credit card accounts were used to make over 292 million transactions with a total value of $31.9 billion. Card holders w…
Make this year a financially healthy one
Another year is over. Did you achieve everything you’d hoped? Are you better or worse off financially than you were this time last year? With a new year in front of you, what can you do to make the…
Building financial resilience
Resilience is the ability to quickly recover from setbacks, and while setbacks can come in many forms most of them will have a financial component. So what can you do to build financial resilience?…
6 steps to a sustainable Christmas
Just as the Grinch stole Christmas, excess spending can rob us all of yuletide happiness. Seasonal credit card splurges can create ballooning long term debt, while unnecessary consumption inevitabl…
When was the last time you paid cash?
Prior to COVID, we were steadily moving towards a cashless world. Post 2020, even the most resilient of us has made the leap to tap-and-go payments sooner than we expected.
From the morning coffee…
It’s time to get focused on super in your 40s
Typically your forties is a time of established careers, teenage kids and a mortgage that is no longer daunting. There are still plenty of demands on the budget, but by this age there’s a good chan…