Complaints down but gas disconnections on the nose
COMPLAINTS to the Energy and Water Ombudsman NSW have fallen almost across the board on the North Coast.
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COMPLAINTS to the Energy and Water Ombudsman NSW have fallen almost across the board on the North Coast.
HEALTH workers in NSW warn medicine prices will rise under lopsided patent deals planned for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
GIVEN the choice of scrounging every penny just to survive or jumping ship to a life of comfort in your autumn years, what would you choose?
COUNCILS of Social Service from every state and territory have called in unison for a national plan to tackle poverty in Australia.
EXCISE hikes from today will add 12.5% to the price of cigarettes and continues the cost increases to smokers meaning many pay more than a dollar per fag.
NEW parents stand to lose between $4000 and more than $11,000 if cuts to the Paid Parental Leave scheme go ahead.
THE rising cost of living has caused two-thirds of Australians to cut back on spending, a consumer watchdog says.
WITH gas prices rising, many in the community are shivering while contemplating how big their next gas bill will be, as LNG changes the east coast market.
WE’VE asked the people who know – shoppers – for their best tips on how to save on your weekly shop.
KYOGLE has the second-highest child poverty rate in New South Wales with more than one in four youths living below the breadline, a new study has found.
IF YOU have three main meals each day, can pay all your living expenses and have money left over for leisure activities, you are one of the lucky ones.
AUSTRALIANS have once again identified rising utility costs as their biggest financial concern, new data has revealed.
THE fuel gods have delivered a petrol price cut of up to 20 cents a litre for motorists in time for Christmas.
WORKERS with rising incomes who are ultimately pushed into a higher tax bracket will contribute an extra $24 billion in total over the next four years.
THE political debate about Ebola and the Islamic State seems to have replaced Australian concerns about the rising cost of living, a consumer survey has found.
JOE Hockey has brushed aside criticism over comments he made declaring poorer people would not be affected by the fuel tax.
THE cost of buying a home has risen by six times its price in the past 18 years.
RISES in the cost of living for thousands of Australians could be the earliest concrete result families will feel from the Abbott government’s first budget.
GROWTH in the minimum wage would be effectively frozen below inflation for the next decade, if one of the Commission of Audit’s recommendations is acted upon.
THE community sector has called on the Abbott government not to leave Australia’s poorest out in the cold on budget night.
THE ABBOTT government’s plans to abandon the nation’s renewable energy target will cost consumers an extra half a billion dollars, a new analysis has found.
THE State’s peak motoring body has raised fears unleaded petrol prices in Queensland could once again break records in March.
PENSIONERS can expect an extra $15 in their pocket when government payments go up in line with inflation later this month.
ABOUT 40% of Tweed Shire residents living in rental accommodation are in financial stress, according to a report compiled by council staff.
THE cost of unleaded fuel at bowsers around regional Queensland was the highest in five years during December last year, the latest RACQ data reveals.
AN IPSWICH mum and her eight children have been moving from park to park in search of a night’s sleep after being kicked out of their rental property.
FORTY years ago, Bill Palmer was in the fruit business, raising a family with his wife Ruth and coping with the demands of small business.
SOARING electricity prices have failed to dim the festive spirit as families across the Coffs Coast push ahead with dazzling displays of Christmas lights.
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