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Why your funeral could be a great investment
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Why your funeral could be a great investment

The cost of funerals has risen 20 per cent in the past few years, so it’s important to have a plan in place when it comes to payment.

  • by Rachel Lane

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From Gen Z to Millennials, young Australians are truly in a mess
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From Gen Z to Millennials, young Australians are truly in a mess

While it may make you uncomfortable, it’s an irrefutable fact that younger people are vastly more disadvantaged than older ones.

  • by Victoria Devine
Yoga and Netflix: What a speech pathologist on $75,000 spends in a week

Yoga and Netflix: What a speech pathologist on $75,000 spends in a week

This week on Money Diaries, a graduate speech pathologist spends on some hot yoga classes and vodka, lime and sodas.

This tax time, it pays to remember my ‘guaranteed’ secret for wealth
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This tax time, it pays to remember my ‘guaranteed’ secret for wealth

In a few weeks, everybody will have a fatter pay packet because the tax rates are changing. Smart money managers will put the extra to good use.

  • by Noel Whittaker
How to streamline your costs and instantly up your income
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How to streamline your costs and instantly up your income

Today, I give you an RBA-inspired budgetary boot camp to help you squeeze every penny from your finances.

  • by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
You’re not entitled to an inheritance, so here’s how to ask about it

You’re not entitled to an inheritance, so here’s how to ask about it

The truth is, I wouldn’t wish an inheritance on anyone, but as generations get older, it’s a tough conversation many of us are having.

  • by Victoria Devine
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Yes, you can save money and still enjoy life. Here’s how

Yes, you can save money and still enjoy life. Here’s how

Common finance advice seems to suggest saving money should be a slog, whereas the opposite is actually true.

  • by Paridhi Jain
Ramen and car repairs: What a designer on $115,000 spends in a week

Ramen and car repairs: What a designer on $115,000 spends in a week

In Money Diaries this week, a Melbourne-based product designer binges Bridgerton and watches The Notebook for the first time.

After 20 years of columns, here’s what’s changed about money
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After 20 years of columns, here’s what’s changed about money

Twenty years ago, I was still writing about rampant interest rates and booming property prices. But much has changed.

  • by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Want to stretch money like a solo parent? Here are our 11 best hacks
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Want to stretch money like a solo parent? Here are our 11 best hacks

You are welcome to debate me, but I believe no one stretches money like a solo parent. Here’s the best tips I’ve heard.

  • by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
How to politely say ‘no’ to plans you can’t afford

How to politely say ‘no’ to plans you can’t afford

Have you found yourself saying “yes” to something a friend has suggested, even though you couldn’t really afford it? This one’s for you.

  • by Caterina Hrysomallis