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.