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Digital platforms are quickly becoming the honeytrap of choice for payday lenders, providing an unregulated space where their products can be touted under the guise of lifestyle advice. Payday loans - now a $1.85b industry - provide consumers with quick ... More

Alana is 26-years-old, the cherished only child of a proud single mother. She works in the disability sector as a lifestyle support worker. Helping others has always been her passion. On August 7, Alana rings her bank in desperate need of help. A relationship ... More

Christmas might feel comfortably distant while some of us are still wearing scarves to work. But the silly season is notorious for creeping up and ambushing the household finances at the end of the year - it certainly doesn't come cheap. Aussies ... More

There is an old saying in the music business: "You can make a killing, you just can't make a living." This could be said of many perceived "glamour" industries, but exploring the psychological drivers behind why so many people in these industries ... More

We humans are a strange breed when it comes to investment. Over the summer months, I had a stack of people asking about the big drop in the sharemarket in the November to January period and even more about the fall in property values in many parts of ... More

Q. I am 37 and earn $120,000pa before tax. My wife works part-time and earns 30,000-$40,000pa. We have two kids, a boy aged 7 and a girl aged 3. Our house, in the inner suburbs of Brisbane, is valued at about $780,000. Including an offset of $116,000 ... More

When you make the monumental decision to have a baby, you want your pregnancy to go ahead as planned. But one in six Australian couples has fertility issues, according to the Fertility Society of Australia (FSA), which points out that infertility is ... More

Money is just a "thing" - a man-made construct created simply to help us trade goods and services and help describe the value of other "things". But it's not really just a thing, is it? It's so much more. As we grow up, our family's financial status ... More

Calls about debt collectors are all too common at the National Debt Helpline. People are often both stressed and distressed by their interaction with debt collectors, who are perceived as bullying and aggressive in their strategies to collect money. ... More

The impending open banking regulations are set to fundamentally change the way customers and organisations interact for mutual benefit. By sharing data electronically with credit providers, time spent on filling out paper applications will be mitigated ... More