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Getting a few extra dollars in your pocket doesn’t have to involve major, life-changing decisions.

Nine ways you can be richer by this time next year

As another year rolls around, it’s a good time to consider how small changes can make a big impact on your wealth this time next year.

  • Nina Hendy

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Three common money conundrums – and why they’re all lies

We all think about money in different ways, but our worries tend to manifest in some common concerns.

  • Paridhi Jain
Index for Jordan Baker piece on Sydney poverty rates

The parts of Sydney where one child in five lives in poverty

The NSW Council of Social Service says the benefits of reforms introduced by Bob Hawke in the 1980s are being eroded.

  • Jordan Baker
The Supreme Court has seen its biggest year-on-year increase in probate applications.

Fuss over new inheritance fees is much ado about nothing

If Victorians found themselves seriously panicked about the future of their inheritance this week, I’m not surprised.

  • Victoria Devine
It is possible to have meaningful relationships in today’s imperfect climate.

Six tips to save you from a financial hangover this Christmas

It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but Christmas can also be the most expensive for many of us.

  • Victoria Devine

The suburb where I grew up was dubbed ‘the ghetto’. I didn’t tell friends where I lived

Our feelings about the family home we grew up in can be complicated. For me, it’s joy, embarrassment and grief all at once.

  • Shona Hendley
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The government is in the middle of regulating buy now, pay later products like Afterpay and Zip.

All the ways to get your pay early – and why you should never use them

Just 50 years ago, it was near impossible to spend more than you earned. Today, it’s a piece of credit cake.

  • Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
It used to be that knowing when to retire was a relatively simple calculation, but these days its much more complex.

How do you know when you’re ready to retire?

It used to be that knowing when to retire was a relatively simple calculation, but these days its much more complex.

  • Bec Wilson
More needs to be done to help close the super savings gender gap.

Despite our parental leave win, super is still sexist

Paying super on parental leave will add billions of dollars to the retirement funds of parent carers across the country. But it’s not enough.

  • Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Almost a third of Australian families will get free childcare under a model proposed by the Productivity Commission.

The $5 billion plan for families that Albanese could promise at the next election

Almost one-third of Australian families would get free childcare under a plan the federal government is now considering.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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