Should the full value of your family home be included in the age-pension asset test? That’s one of the options being considered by a Senate committee investigating cost-savings in the federal budget. The Business Council of Australia’s president, Tony Shepherd (pictured), who also chairs the committee established by the Abbott Government, submitted the proposal to scrap the long-standing exemption to […]

Should super funds be allowed to spend members’ money on publishing a daily newspaper? A group of industry super funds says yes: in recent months they’ve launched The New Daily, a news website edited by former News Corp Australia and Fairfax Media executive Bruce Guthrie (who famously sued his former employer for six figures when sacked as editor of the Herald Sun newspaper). […]

Should publicly-owned companies such as Australia Post, Medibank Private and electricity networks be sold off? Would consumers benefit? That’s been one of the hot topics of recent weeks after the competition watchdog suggested it in a newspaper interview about an upcoming federal government review of competition policy. “There is no doubt in my mind that energy prices, particularly in NSW and Queensland, […]

Fifty seems to be the magic number. I spent 50 years in advertising and something really funny happened from the time I turned 50, which was 22 years ago. Even when you work in the advertising business you have 20-year-olds doing television commercials that are best appealed to 30-year-olds. I had been more successful than anyone else in advertising in […]

The FiftyUp Club has chosen Coles Insurance as a partner for our first special offer because they offered the best car insurance deal for the majority of our members 50 and over. Coles Insurance is one of Australia’s fastest-growing car insurers, with more than 250,000 policies – and they’ve grown so fast because they provide a quality, value for money alternative […]