Savings Guide – Daily Saving Money Tips

You’ve just gotten your first job out of school and university, and for the first time you can afford cocktails at your local bar. The handbag you’ve always wanted is somehow now within reach, and the improvements you wanted to make to your car (i.e. a subwolfer) are a possible dream. So, you go and [...]

I left home without any money. I was just back from six months around Europe and I didn’t really have a cent to my name. I was lucky- I had a room at a relative’s house for a year, and walked straight into a job earned solely through the solid DNA that is nepotism. Regardless, [...]

Student poverty is pretty much accepted as the norm in Australian society and is a running joke in student circles. Really it’s no laughing matter and it’s very unfortunate that those who study and live out of home can’t even afford to eat properly during exam time.

As I write this, I am sitting on the table with my two younger brothers. We’ve yet to clear away the breakfast debris but resting among the jam and used coffee cups are three Mac computers. Typing away in solidarity on a Sunday morning, to the outsider’s eyes, we must look like the epitome of [...]

A few things are more or less inevitable when you begin university study – you’re going to be skint, you’re going to find great excuses for delaying thinking seriously about your future career and you’re going to spend way too much money on alcohol.

You hear a lot about it. The debt that Australian students are piling upon themselves simply so they can attend university. It’s a divisive discussion. Facing off are the bleeding hearts who believe in free education and those who lambast the ‘professional students’ who somehow managed to spend ten years and lots of the government’s [...]