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Inflation — Who Really Pays the Price?

What exactly is inflation?I keep hearing the word inflation at the moment.It is on the news, in newspaper headlines and, of course, whenever interest …

magner · Sep 19, 2026 · 📖 13 min read

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What Does a Comfortable Retirement Really Mean?

The numbers say one thing. Living it can be something quite different.I read an SBS article recently telling me that Australians now believe they need…

magner · Sep 16, 2026 · 📖 5 min read

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Private Health Insurance in Retirement — When Does It Become Too Expensive?

When Sheila and I arrived in Brisbane in 1988, after spending 22 years in New Zealand, one of the things we decided to do was take out private health …

magner · Sep 15, 2026 · 📖 3 min read

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The Bank of Mum and Dad — What About Those Without One?

Has getting ahead in Australia become dependent on the family you were born into?I read an interesting SBS article recently about what it calls Austra…

magner · Sep 14, 2026 · 📖 8 min read

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Is There a Better Way to House a Nation?

What Australia might learn from countries that have decided housing is more than just an investment.I've been thinking about affordable housing for qu…

magner · Sep 13, 2026 · 📖 6 min read

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One Rent Increase a Year — But How Much?

I've been writing quite a bit lately about affordable housing, and the more I look into the subject, the more questions I seem to have.One of those qu…

magner · Sep 12, 2026 · 📖 5 min read

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