We’ve pulled together a collection of handy tools and resources to support you on your quest to financial greatness! Each month as another episode goes live, we will be adding to this list, so make sure to check back periodically to see the new goodies that pop up (or sign up to our mailing list and receive them straight to your inbox each month!).
Got a fabulous tool or resource that you use to manage and/or grow your money? Let us know so we can share it with all the ladies!
CRISIS SUPPORT + LINKS RELATING TO CORONAVIRUS
HEALTH UPDATES
Department of Health’s COVID-19 current situation + case numbers: to stay up to date with the latest official case figures in each state, across Australia and around the globe.
Government response plan to COVID-19: provides an overview of how the Australia government is responding to the pandemic, including travel restrictions, economic support packages, testing and more.
Australian Government’s FAQ about COVID-19: a downloadable PDF that answers some of the most common questions about the virus, including what it is, how it spreads, if you should get tested and more.
The World Health Organisation COVID-19 website: a central hub for all the WHO’s COVID-19 resources, including how to protect ourselves, updates on the latest outbreak data, educational videos, online training, myth-busters and more.
The Royal AUS and NZ College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists COVID-19 Advice for pregnant women: offers practical expert advice for pregnant women and their families across Australia.
GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL SUPPORT UPDATES
The Australian Government’s COVID-19 homepage: a summary of the new measures introduced to provide additional financial support to Australians, with links to key updates across the country as well as state-specific information.
The Treasury’s support for individuals and households: includes downloadable fact sheets for a range of new financial assistance measures, including:
Income support for individuals
Payments to support households
Temporary early release of superannuation
Temporarily reducing superannuation minimum drawdown rates (making it easier for retirees to access their super if needed)
Reducing social securing deeming rates (this will increase the amount received by those on the Age Pension)
The Treasury’s support for businesses: explains how the Australian Government will assist businesses across the following areas:
Boosting cash flow for employers
Temporary relief for businesses in financial distress
Increasing the instant asset write-off
Backing business investment
Supporting apprentices and trainees
Services Australia COVID-19 Homepage: provides direct links for how to claim government support across a range of individual circumstances, including job seekers, older Australians, people with a disability, students, trainees and more.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR WOMEN
Services Australia’s COVID-19 support for families: includes specific information about what financial support families are entitled to, including what happens if your child can’t attend childcare, what happens if your family income changes, child support and more.
VERVE SUPER’S CORONAVIRUS FINANCIAL RESOURCES HUB
A fabulous resource from these guys full of articles, info and guides on everything to do with women, money and coronavirus.
FURTHER READING
Verve Super’s Coronavirus and the spread of financial abuse article: practical advice and guidance explaining how to spot the warning signs of abusive relationships, financial abuse and how to access support services (even while at home).
FINANCE LINKS AND TOOLS
Money Links
Women Talk Money
Women Talk Money is a financial resource for women created by WIRE, an information and support service for women in Victoria.
Moneysmart
Moneysmart helps Australians take control of their money and build a better life with free tools, tips and guidance.
Boost Your Super
Boost Your Super is a platform to help you raise free and easy contributions for your super. You can raise free cash for your super each time you shop online.
Super Rewards
Super Rewards is an online shopping platform where retailers pay cash rewards into your super.
CRISIS AND COUNSELLING LINKS
Financial Abuse Support
Financial Counselling
National Debt Helpline
Dress for Success
CALCULATORS
PROPERTY INVESTMENT CALCULATORS
Calculate your living expenses, how much you can borrow, repayments and stamp duty costs here.
RETIREMENT PLANNER
Use Moneysmart’s retirement calculator to find out how much you’ll need when the time comes, and, to see if you’re on track to get there.
BOOKS WE RECOMMEND
BOOKS on MONEY
The Clean Money Revolution - Joel Solomon
The dirty money of “business as usual” is on the brink, wedged between catastrophic climate change and the demographic tidal wave of Millennials pounding the consumer table for real change. These forces are transforming the very nature of capitalism into something different and powerful towards a clean money revolution.
Money, A Love Story - Kate Northrup
Having a good relationship with money is tough—whether you have millions in the bank or just a few bucks to your name. Why? Because just like any other relationship, your life with money has its ups and downs, its twists and turns, its breakups and makeups. And just like other relationships, living happily with money really comes down to love—which is why love is the basis of money maven Kate Northrup's book.
BOOKS ON OTHER GOOD STUFF
Boys Will Be Boys - Clementine Ford
Fearless feminist heroine Clementine Ford demolishes the age-old assumption that superiority and aggression are natural realms for boys, and demonstrates how toxic masculinity creates a disturbingly limited and potentially dangerous idea of what it is to be a man. Crucially, Boys Will Be Boys reveals how the patriarchy we live in is as harmful to boys and men as it is to women and girls, and asks what we have to do to reverse that damage. The world needs to change and this book shows the way.
The Wife Drought - Annabel Crabb
'I need a wife!’ It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It's a potent economic asset on the work front. And it's an advantage enjoyed – even in our modern society – by vastly more men than women. Crabb's call is for a ceasefire in the gender wars. Rather than a shout of rage, The Wife Drought is the thoughtful, engaging catalyst for a conversation that's long overdue.
On Fire - Naomi Klein
For more than a decade, Naomi Klein has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency. She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal – a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate, she argues that only this kind of bold, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time.
See What You Made Me Do - Jess Hill
Domestic abuse is a national emergency: one in four women has experienced violence from a man she was intimate with. But too often we ask the wrong question: why didn’t she leave? We should be asking: why did he do it? Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts perpetrators - and the systems that enable them - in the spotlight. See What You Made Me Do is a deep dive into the abuse so many women and children experience - abuse that is often reinforced by the justice system they trust to protect them. Critically, it shows that we can drastically reduce the violence - not in generations to come, but today.
PODCASTS WE LIKE
PODCASTS ON MONEY
My Millennial Money
Glen James (Australia's Millennial Money Expert) & John Pidgeon (property investing expert) discuss millennial money matters in a light-hearted way. With a variety of topical guests on the show, there is a great balance between practical money tips and banter. My Millennial Money
She’s on the Money
The one stop destination for millennial women who want financial freedom (without skimping on brunch). She’s on the Money