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Takeaway and tailoring: What a flight attendant on $60,000 spends in a week

Takeaway and tailoring: What a flight attendant on $60,000 spends in a week

On Money Diaries this week, a long-haul cabin crew worker who travels to and from Singapore and spends money on cocktails and street food.

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School under fire over $600 family bill to watch children graduate

School under fire over $600 family bill to watch children graduate

A selective public school in Melbourne’s south-east has been accused of not considering cost-of-living pressures after charging $160 for students and their families to attend a year 12 valedictory dinner.

  • by Robyn Grace
Ramen and car repairs: What a designer on $115,000 spends in a week

Ramen and car repairs: What a designer on $115,000 spends in a week

In Money Diaries this week, a Melbourne-based product designer binges Bridgerton and watches The Notebook for the first time.

Campsites and coffee: What a researcher on $119,000 spends in a week

Campsites and coffee: What a researcher on $119,000 spends in a week

On Money Diaries, a NT researcher who goes camping two weekends in a row and starts playing hockey again for the first time in years.

Horse races and frozen Coke: What a teacher on $97,000 spends in a week

Horse races and frozen Coke: What a teacher on $97,000 spends in a week

On Money Diaries this week, we meet a secondary school teacher diarist who goes for a run almost daily, shops for new bras and makes HelloFresh meals.

How much the cost of living crunch has cost you – and what you have cut out
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How much the cost of living crunch has cost you – and what you have cut out

Two years of high inflation and rising interest rates has slashed our spending power. These charts show by how much.

  • by Matt Wade
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Why are more businesses charging extra to pay by card?

Why are more businesses charging extra to pay by card?

More businesses are now placing surcharges on all card payments, while they were previously only common on credit cards.

  • by Mary Ward
Want to stretch money like a solo parent? Here are our 11 best hacks
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Want to stretch money like a solo parent? Here are our 11 best hacks

You are welcome to debate me, but I believe no one stretches money like a solo parent. Here’s the best tips I’ve heard.

  • by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Croissants and egg freezing: What a consultant on $130,000 spends in a week

Croissants and egg freezing: What a consultant on $130,000 spends in a week

On Money Diaries this week, we meet a diarist with severe endometriosis and adenomyosis who spends $9796 on fertility treatments and finishes four books.

Broken phones and snacks: What a piano teacher on $40,000 spends in a week

Broken phones and snacks: What a piano teacher on $40,000 spends in a week

On this week’s Money Diary, our diarist has recently dropped her phone and the touchscreen no longer works, so she makes do with a mouse and voice-to-text.

Read it and weep: The Forbes billionaires just got a lot richer
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Read it and weep: The Forbes billionaires just got a lot richer

Billionaires now account for $US14.2 trillion of the world’s wealth. To put this into perspective, this is larger than the gross domestic product of any country other than the US and China.

  • by Elizabeth Knight