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More Your Money: Explainer: can I get a refund for my emissions-cheating Volkswagen?This week Volkswagen Australia confirmed it will recall more than 60,000 Volkswagen; Tax reform - can we ALL win?; Sorry Joe, consumer spending will disappoint Santa this Christmas; Debunking the 'cost of children' argument; Are You Getting Paid Enough?

More Savings Tips: Top 5 Ways To Save Water At HomeThe typical American family uses about 400 gallons of water every day.; 6 Spending Styles That Will Help You Save; 5 More Incredibly Simple Things You Should Do To Protect Your Privacy; Hair Color and Money Habits; How To Manage And Reduce Your Personal Debt This Holiday Season

More Get Out of Debt: Australians are saving more, but are more comfortable with debtAustralians know that adequate savings can help provide for a rainy day; Chasing money: why the insolvency industry needs reform; How much is your debt really costing you?; The Ultimate Resolution For 2012: Kick Debt; What's Your Debt Really Costing You?

More Property & Home: Five reasons the Turnbull government shouldn't let us spend super on a homeAllowing first homebuyers to cash out their super to buy a home is a seductive idea with a long history; Property developers pay developer charges, that's why they argue against them; Inefficient tax slugs all homebuyers; Australians less likely to survive home ownership than Britons; Four tax policies Australian house prices rest on

More Retirement: Submissions want super tax concessions cut: TreasurySubmissions to the government?s taxation white paper show support for reducing concessions for superannuation; Our super system isn't perfect - but for a failure, look to the US; Tapping super not the answer to home ownership decline; It's your super, so why shouldn't you be allowed access?; Super fees vary wildly, and it will hurt your retirement income

More Investment: Down, down but not different: Australia's supermarkets in a race to the bottomFor 25 years, Woolworths told shoppers they were "the fresh food people".; Keeping up or holding back? The regulation challenge for government; Using family trusts to minimise tax is on the nose: so why are policy makers silent?; From 'debt and deficit' to 'building prosperity': what's needed to shift the economic narrative; Banks are training us to embrace their competitors

More Millionaire Mindset: Takeover - Foreign Investment and the Australian PsycheOne of the perennial features of Australia?s economic and political discourse is how to deal with foreign investment; Volkswagen fallout shows how not to manage a crisis; Why everybody knows CEOs are overpaid, but nothing happens; As China changes from world's factory to innovator, Australia needs to keep pace; The super rich and tax: lifters or leaners?

More Work: Managing across generations will deliver more productive workplacesEconomic growth depends heavily on having sufficient and productive labour; Let's talk about your pay, and loudly; Labor 2.0: why we shouldn't fear the 'sharing economy' and the reinvention of work; Australia's gig economy yet to register in employment numbers; Change penalty rates, reform work agreements, urges Productivity Commission: experts respond

More Ask an Advisor: Yes, it is our business: how corporations can help on Sustainable Development GoalsThe SDGs focus on the greatest challenges faced by humanity with the aim of ending poverty and hunge; Australia's next wave of startups could be from the over-55s; How fast food is reinventing itself as healthy and caring; What the mining sector and Australian politics have in common; Economic modelling may overplay the costs of Australia's 2030 climate target

More Smart Spending: Returning to work after childbirth: still a case of 'managing it all'The return by women to paid work after maternity or parental leave plays a crucial role in driving our workforce and...; Priceless: the inefficient, but merry economics of Christmas; Pie Face collapse a lesson in biting off more than you can chew; Rise of corporate divorces leads to fleeting gains; National financial planning register will just list problem, not solve it

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