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How do working parents manage school holidays?
As kids returned to school this week I could feel the sense of relief in the air and it caused me to once again question how full-time working parents manage child minding in the school holidays.
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Should your new partner help support you and your children?
Negotiating money and finances in a new relationship is tricky enough, but doubly so when you have dependent children to bring into the mix.
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There's a new way for kids to earn pocket money
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Choice calls for ban on CBA's Dollarmites accounts
The country's largest consumer group is calling for a ban on the Commonwealth Bank's iconic Dollarmites​ accounts, saying it allows banks to pay "kickbacks" to schools to "flog their products."
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'It's sad': After paying the bills every week, Marian has $30 left
Nearly one in three Australians is feeling financially stressed, with damaging effects on mental and physical health and social relationships.
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Flying solo: how single parents can improve their finances
Single parenting is tough - there's no glossing over the fact. Even years on from separation both men and especially women suffer financially.
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How to run a business in school hours
Forget about working nine to five if you're a small business owner with school kids.
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Girl, 5, fined $240 for running lemonade stand without permit
A five-year-old girl is the latest lemonade stand operator to be fined for not having a permit, in what is a spate of targeted attacks on pint-sized entrepreneurs.
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How to help your kids inherit good money habits
It's up to you.
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Coles deepens price war after slicing bread prices
Coles and Woolworths have launched a bare-knuckle brawl for shoppers' bread bins.
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