Reduction in Home Loans
DEMAND for home loans eased for a second straight month in August, coming off the boil even before yesterday’s first official interest rate rise in 19 months. Read more
Interest Rates are on the up
THE big banks have moved to increase interest rates on standard variable home loans in what is likely to be the first of many rate hikes. Westpac and Commonwealth Bank are the latest to announce rate hikes, raising standard variable rates.
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Paying for School Dinners
Credit cards and the internet are not playing a part in purchases of school lunches.
The days of children handing a brown paper bag and coins to the canteen lady – or being bullied for their lunch money – are coming to an end as school lunches go cashless and thousands of families set up online accounts to order food.
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