Much has been written about how, with the passing of the Queen, we have lost one of our last continuing links to the second world war.
We have, but we have also lost something even more profound – the link she gave us back to when the kind of world we know began.
On Tuesday last week Queen Elizabeth appointed a new prime minister of Britain, Liz Truss, who was born in 1975.
Australians on our humiliatingly-low unemployment benefit are about to get their biggest payday ever.
On September 20, the single rate of JobSeeker will climb A$25.70 per fortnight from $642.70 to $668.40. That’s the biggest automatic increase since the payment began at the turn of the 1990s, and twice as big as the next-biggest.
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If you are anything like me, the nearer you get to a deadline, the more desperately you want to postpone it, no matter how much harder that makes things down the track.
What is it with the Coalition and wages?
At the moment, things look awful.
The latest Bureau of Statistics count of retail spending (spending online and in shops) released Tuesday shows we spent less in April than in February.
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton might have done us a favour.
As part of his budget reply speech on Thursday night he promised to stop foreigners buying existing Australian homes.
The Reserve Bank is now assuming Australians will see no interest rate cuts this year – and quite possibly none before the next federal election, due next May.
What if the government was doing everything it could to stop thieves making off with our money, except the one thing that could really work?
That’s how it looks when it comes to scams, which are attempts to trick us out of our funds, usually by getting us to hand over our identities or bank details or transfer funds.