LOADED down with debt? Looking to turn over a new leaf? The start of the new financial year is an excellent time to get fiscally fit.

FIFTY years after we first had Aussie dollars and cents, experts believe huge changes are coming faster than you might think.

IT WAS supposed to change the way we live, with Australians hailing it as the ‘next big thing’. But four years on, what’s happened to it?

AUSTRALIANS could start 2015 with a significant windfall if they claw back more than $1.28 billion floating in unclaimed accounts.

NELLY is apparently millions of dollars in debt. But fans have created an ingenious movement to help out the impoverished rapper.

SOMEONE is always saying that the end of the financial world is coming. Learning how to ignore them is a key part of long-term investment success.

DEMANDS for Centrelink repayments are leaving vulnerable Aussies stressed and anxious, with the agency even tweeting the Lifeline number.

AMY was looking forward to getting married and buying a house with her fiance, but her partner’s past came back to haunt them.

THE holidays are full of expenses already without dropping thousands of dollars on festivities. Here’s how to celebrate without breaking the bank.

THIS seems rather excessive. An individual car space at a suburban train station’s carpark is costing taxpayers $44,000.

AN increasing number of mortgage holders are turning to minimum-only repayments on their loans raising concerns they have too much debt.

AUSTRALIANS are addicted to credit cards and have racked up the biggest ever debt on plastic. Together, we owe more than $52 billion.

ABOUT 10 days into my recent three-week Tassie camping adventure, I felt it. I’d woken up, done that tent-shimmy thing into my dirt-encrusted jeans and salty flannie, and as I slipped out into the sound of morning bird calls, a sort of airy lightness, as free-feeling happiness took over.

BETWEEN running the workshop, reading letters and tending to reindeer, Santa is a busy guy. It turns out, he would get paid pretty well too.

Each year about 100,000 Aussies lodge complaints about money issues including credit cards, banking, advice, superannuation, insurance and investments.