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Personal finance

July 2024

  • Illustration of two couples with children outside a home up for sale, with differently sized piggy banks at each side

    The bank of mum and dad is making the Australian dream of home ownership come true – for some

  • Jordyn Beazley

    How hard is it to live off cash alone? I tried for a weekend and this is what happened

    Jordyn Beazley
  • Alinta Davidson outdoors with her mother Gillian

    How a family was left ‘shattered’ by a Homesafe contract on their single mother’s home

  • Leanne Mackey and her husband Wayne at their home in Point Cook Victoria, on the 31st of May 2024

    The older Australians who regret signing over life savings to a ‘wealth release’ scheme

June 2024

  • Australian notes scattered on a table.

    Debt collection giant Panthera puts large parts of its business into administration

    A Guardian Australia investigation has revealed Panthera had circumvented blacklisting designed to stop it operating in Victoria
  • A Guzman y Gomez store in Sydney, Australia

    Guzman y Gomez storms the ASX, but can the good times really last?

    It is pitched as ‘clean food’ and the company has big ambitions, but one analyst warns ‘there’s plenty of things that can go wrong’
    • Full Story
      The destructive consequences of financial abuse – Full Story podcast

    • Four charts that prove the huge financial pressure many Australian households are under

    • How payday lenders target Australia’s most vulnerable – and the ‘whack-a-mole’ fight to crack down on them

May 2024

  • left: Karin Adams holding bowl of daffodils next to her stepfather; right: candles next to framed photo

    ‘Die now, pay later’: funerals are pushing grieving families into debt as the cost-of-living crisis hits

  • A woman using her mobile phone

    Know your rights: what to do if you receive a call from a debt collector

  • Pro-Palestine student demonstrators at La Trobe University

    Australia news live
    La Trobe University students end pro-Palestine camp – as it happened

  • Australian banknotes on a table

    Why Guardian Australia is investigating the private debt collection industry

  • Revealed: How an Australian debt collection giant dodged its own blacklisting

  • Australian home lenders accused of ignoring mortgage customers in financial distress

  • Budget 2024: robotax debts could be put on ice with ATO to be given new powers

  • The Crunch
    What makes someone rich? Find out how your income and wealth compares

  • Centrepay scandal: energy firm Origin wrongly received funds from welfare payments of former customers

  • Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’

April 2024

  • Two fingers point at black text that says Who screwed millennials?

    Who screwed millennials?
    Introducing: Who screwed millennials? – podcast

    Full Story co-host Jane Lee and reporter Matilda Boseley investigate the mystery of who screwed young Australians out of affordable housing, education and secure work
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