Budget Winter Breaks
No matter where you are in Australia, as winter approaches and summer seems a distant memory, it’s not uncommon to start dreaming about your next holiday. One of the best things about Australia is that [...]
What’s your new (financial) year’s resolution?
The glow of New Year’s fireworks may be a distant memory, but there’s another new year coming up that for many of us is more important. That’s right, the new financial year is fast approaching, [...]
Healthy eating on a budget
Healthy eating doesn’t have to be expensive. With a few simple tweaks to what you buy and how you prep for the week, you could be saving hundreds of dollars every year. What many of [...]
Budget 2018: What it means for you
Buoyed by a stronger economy, the 2018 Federal Budget promises to deliver income tax relief, more jobs, guaranteed essential services and the government living within its means. So what does this mean for you? Encouraging [...]
Travel destinations to get the most bang for buck
Aussies love travelling overseas – it’s a simple fact. According to ABS stats, more of us head abroad for our holidays than ever before. This is despite the fact that the Aussie dollar hasn’t fared [...]
100 not out: how to bat above the average
Ever wish you could harness the secrets of the world’s centenarians or supercentenarians (100+)? You’re not alone. Longevity research has been the life’s work of thousands of different researchers from various fields. Every year there [...]
Get smarter every day with a little help from TED…
Back in the day, a person would finish their education after middle school, high school or university, and never study again. Learning was done on the job (if at all), and new areas of knowledge [...]
Could we be living in a cashless society?
In 2015, Australia passed an important milestone. You probably didn’t even notice. But it’s something that, if the trend continues, could dramatically change the way you live. Westpac reported that 53% of payments made in [...]
Boosting your brain health
Paul Taylor shares these tips to boosting your brain health. I see a lot of advertising in the media for brain-training programs and games such as Luminosity, but are these things the best way to [...]
New year, new you (for more than a month…)
Did you have New Year’s resolutions last year? Can you even remember what they were? If the answers to those two questions were ‘yes’ and ‘no’, there’s a chance it’s because you gave up on [...]