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 ...
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Member since August 2026
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Twenty Years to Fix Housing — What Are We Supposed to Do Until Then?
I read an ABC report recently about evidence given to a Senate inquiry by NAB chief economist Dr Sally Auld.What caught my attention wasn't simply the...
When Did the Borrower Start Carrying All the Risk?
Looking back at buying homes in Britain and New Zealand — and wondering how mortgages became what they are todayI have been thinking about mortgages ...
Superannuation — Who Was It Really For?
As time went by in my life, I never really gave much thought to retirement. When you're working and running a business, retirement seems a long way in...
"Why More Grandparents Are Writing Down Their Life Stories"
"A look at why preserving your memories matters — and a simple way to get started, no computer skills required.Why More Grandparents Are Writing Down...