Let me take you to ground zero of the mortgage crisis. Right now the National Debt Helpline (1800 007 007) is receiving so many calls that they’re at breaking point. The helpline refers people in the most dire situations on...
Should first home buyers be allowed to raid their super to fund a house deposit? “No”, declared Malcolm Turnbull boldly in 2015, before adding that it was “a thoroughly bad idea”. Then again, in 2015 the Minister for Networth also...
A couple of years ago I hosted a 13-week prime time television show. Don’t remember it? There’s a reason for that … it was axed after the second episode. I found out about its premature death via a text message...
A couple of years ago my wife dragged me along to the opening of an art exhibition. Dutifully, I stood there with a glass of bubbly in one hand and a quizzical look in the other. I felt as out...
“Former Domino’s pizza delivery boy who earned $10 an hour owns 14 renovated properties and is now semi-retired at the age of 28 (and he says you can do it too)” read the headline this week. And all the renters...
Donald Trump reminds me of the bullies who teased me at school. Anyone who stands up to him gets a put-down: ‘Crooked Hillary’, ‘Little Marco’, ‘Low Energy Ted’. His aim is to get everyone laughing at them, just like in...
Malcolm, I feel for you, brother. On Wednesday, after the banks behaved like brats by not passing on all of the Reserve Bank’s rate cut, the Prime Minister held a press conference. He said — essentially word for word —...
“Aussie Dream is Dying” read a newspaper headline earlier in the week. I happened to be reading the article as I was waiting for a coffee. So I turned to my hipster barista — who was all beardy and tattooed...
“NOW it’s mortgage brokers facing digital disruption in the third wave of property finance.” I read that headline earlier this week in much the same way that my three-year-old reads his bedtime stories. By guessing. “Mortgage brokers facing digital disruption”...
Today, I’m eating humble pie. I have to confess to you, dear reader, that a key ‘plank’ of the advice that I have written about for over a decade is, well, wrong. And it took a lovely couple to show...
Picture this: You walk up to your car and notice you’ve copped a parking ticket. Bastards! You swipe the ticket off your windshield and almost fall over. A $500 fine! WTF?! If you’re like most people, it’d give you the...
I was born dangerously close to the VFL Grand Final. So when my mum brought me home for the first time, she was greeted by my dad and his mates (including the doctor who delivered me) drinking frothies and watching...