Bills
Apartments locked into higher power bills after developers partner with retailers
There’s been a 900 per cent increase in the number of residents on embedded networks as developers allow energy companies to co-invest in apartment infrastructure in exchange for gas, electricity and hot water contracts.
- by Amber Schultz
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Retirement living
Retiring soon? Time to reduce, review and switch your services
Take the opportunity – at the time when you will most benefit from cutting your cost of living – to run the ruler over your gas, electricity, and insurance.
- by Bec Wilson
Renters, low-income households left behind in race to turn off gas
Reducing the number of gas appliances in rental and low-income homes will be a major challenge for Victoria as it seeks to meet climate targets.
- by Nick Toscano
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Animal cruelty
Game on: States issued a challenge to see who can end chook battery farming soonest
Western Australia is leading the race to be the first state to ban cage eggs with 77 per cent of Australians wanting the practice phased out.
- by Latika Bourke
Summer to heat up power prices, cost-of-living pressures
A looming El Nino weather system is forecast to add to the Albanese government’s challenge in delivering its promise to slash power bills by 2025.
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Opinion
Superannuation
How to avoid getting a super-sized pay cut this week
Your employer could cut your take-home pay to fund the latest super increase, warns our new Sunday Money columnist Victoria Devine.
- by Victoria Devine
Gemma and her husband work four jobs between them just to afford groceries
Australians are increasingly working longer hours and taking second jobs to meet the rising cost-of-living pressures. Three women share their stories.
- by Dilvin Yasa
‘Held hostage’: Residents brace for $1000 monthly bills in gas monopoly
Marong residents fear a cold winter will leave them struggling to pay the bills. Victoria’s energy compare website estimates residents in the town will pay double what their counterparts in suburban Melbourne pay a month.
- by Benjamin Preiss
More Australians fall into energy debt, bills to rise again this weekend
Soaring energy prices have driven another double-digit jump in the number of Australians with unpaid bills, just as prices are set to rise by up to a quarter.
- by Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
‘Our neighbours ... need help now’: Sydney councils asked to pay for food relief
City of Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore said she had been told demand for free food was now far higher than during the COVID pandemic.
- by Michael Koziol
Opinion
Opinion
The bill squirrel: How smoothing your debts can soothe money stress
By doing the bill “squirrel”, you can use your bill money to also save you loan interest, rather than big energy companies using it to ratchet up profits.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon