The Australian Women's Weekly

Defensive spending

More than half a million Australians lost their jobs in April alone, and many have lost other forms of income. Even those who haven’t taken a financial hit know we’re not in the clear yet – the International Monetary Fund says we haven’t seen an upheaval of this scale and severity since the turned to the experts for advice on where to save and where to spend going forward.

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