Nicola Field

If you rent your home, it’s a fair bet you’ve got a decent chunk of cash tied up in bond. Here’s how to avoid losing all or part of the money when it’s time to move on.

A growing number of everyday bank accounts are offering 'round up' as an optional feature. It works like this: each time you make a purchase using a linked debit card, the amount withdrawn is rounded up...

It seems like a long time ago when the Morrison Government announced the new JobKeeper wage subsidy worth $1,500 per fortnight. Australians without a job weren't overlooked, with a new $550 per fortnight coronavirus supplement plus...

So much for "cash is king". You can barely give away notes and coins these days as growing numbers of retailers demand payment by card only. This is a new situation in Australia – and it...

The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the job market, pushing an extra 283,000 Australians out of work since the start of 2020 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But the bills don't stop rolling...

Australians were thrown a financial lifeline in March 2020, when the banks allowed the option of a six-month home loan holiday for people impacted by the economic downturn of COVID-19. And plenty of us raised our...

Australians can't get enough of online shopping – more than 70% of us shop over the internet, and one in five purchases are made through overseas websites. Buying overseas can mean scoring a bargain. But the...

Australians are among the world's great travellers, second only to the Brits for our love of global jet-setting, according to a 2019 study by Agoda. It  found that close to 90% of Aussies have travelled internationally,...

The outbreak of coronavirus has seen massive numbers of workers lose their jobs around Australia. The latest figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the unemployment rate jumped to 7.1% in May – the...

Although Bitcoin has been around since 2009, it chugged along for many years trading at less than $1,000 (we'll stick with Aussie dollars here). That all changed in 2016, when the cryptocurrency began to climb in...