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What kind of idiot thinks it's better to have money in super than a home of your own? I retired self-funded with a comfortable amount of super, but if I had to pay rent I would be on a pension and rent assistance within 10 years after retirement. Anyone who owns their home outright CAN live on...

Vile and disgusting neighbours forced us out of our home over a fence dispute. Because they didn't get away with a demand to pay an exorbitant amount for an unnecessary fence that we were never consulted about (they did sue, but lost the court case!) they started a vendetta - letting tyres down...

Actually, if you own your home you can manage okay on the pension. It's the renters who are struggling in retirement and costing the government money. It is patently STUPID to prioritize retirement savings over a home of your own. You might retire with a little more - not much more, because rent...

Where did you learn economics? I have a reasonably healthy super balance - enough that I don't qualify for any pension. If I had to pay rent, I would not be able to live on the income from my super and within 5 years I would be on a pension. How patently STUPID to think super is more benefit in...

With sensible limits on the type of home you can use super to buy or pay off, this would be a sensible reform. Super is useless if you don't have a home. Take the example of a couple in their early 50s still renting, but with $800,000 between them in super. By retirement, they will have well in...

What a silly proposition, when the government is bringing in half a million immigrants every year. So seniors who have lived and paid taxes in Australia their whole lives are supposed to leave so that immigrants can have their homes. Get stuffed!

I don't have any tips for saving other than shopping around and, if you can, installing solar panels. But I find it very disturbing that life is so much more complicated than it was decades ago. We used to ask the local electricity provider to connect and we paid the bill. There was no...

But sadly governments presume to deny people choice. And advanced care directive does not allow you to request to die in Qld unless you have a terminal illness and have been declared almost certain to die within a year. That is outrageous and disgusting. A person should be able to declare under...

I agree with the bride's decision, but she must not have paid much attention to the character and personality of the man she was marrying. If he was that inconsiderate, there would have been signals earlier that she should have heeded.

Anyone who thinks there will be any change in the way supermarkets operate - other than bigger price increases - is delusional. The government will do NOTHING.

mylittletibbies I know your struggle. My daughter has a seriously disabled child. It's a 24/7 job, with no respite. And it's hard work. Compound the physical strain of caring with the mental pain of seeing your child suffer and being unable to give them the life you want for them, and having to...

Wait just a minute here, folks. Chefs make pretty good money. This woman is from a two-income household with no kids and a hubby working in a reasonably well-paid trade - yet she wants struggling taxpayers to hand her over $4000! FOR WHAT? If she can't afford a few weeks off work unpaid, she is...

I'm sorry, but I find this woman's complaint offensive. Centrelink is funded by taxpayers, and many taxpayers are struggling - for all sorts of reasons - and unable to get any help or respite. Why should someone receive benefits for losing a baby at less than half way through a pregnancy...

My heart is not a rock. I feel deep sympathy for this woman. But money doesn't grow on trees. It comes out of the pockets of other Australians who are struggling to pay their own bills. I have family in dire financial circumstances because of health issues, but paying over $10K in taxes...

Actually, in the year before workers got a $1500 tax cut, their taxes increased by $1460. I don't think their tax cut will help them much! But I agree that the aged and disabled are discriminated against.

I spent the last months of my mother's life and the first few months after her death battling with three incompetent bureaucracies. First, I discovered Comsec had failed to pay Mum benefits she was entitled to from my later father's superannuation. When I queried them about the approx $80,000...

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Oh whoopie! Mr Bowen is promising petrol price cuts for RICH PEOPLE who can buy expensive new cars. Hello. Don't they already have the option of buying an electric vehicle? That is, if they are not needing to tow a caravan, don't drive where there are no recharging stations, and don't need a...

Color code cartons with bright stickers, using one color for ''open first'' - items you will need immediately on arrival at your destination; and then in order of urgency to access. Tell removalists what each colour means and ask them to stack accordingly, so that boxes of things you need...