Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Psychology professor at San Diego State University, Jean M Twenge, Ph.D., has been studying generational differences for twenty five...


Australian medical team doing great work in Namibia
In Namibia, outside of the capital Windhoek, there is only one qualified anaesthetist for the whole country (population 2.5 million). My...


Thy Will, Be Done
Let’s assume you have a Will and that it is fairly recent. Is this your Estate Plan? What’s the difference?
Your Will is to your Estate Plan
For Richer, For Poorer: Divorce in Australia
AMP and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) released their report into the financial impact of divorce on Austral


The right way to help your children
Parents instinctively do all we can to help our children with counsel, guidance, support and assistance. We like to think we do so in the...
The Gift of Gratitude
The old Yiddish proverb goes, “If you can’t be grateful for what you have received, then be thankful for what you have been spared”....


SMH Devils are in the detail article
I’ve previously cautioned about the considerations and potential shortcomings of having insurance through superannuation, including your...
Eat more Butter!
Recently, researchers Laura Pimpin (former postdoctoral fellow) and Dariush Mozaffarian (dean at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition...


The Zen of Conversation and Superannuation Contributions
There are indeed matters more significant than Life (Insurance). In the spirit of our ethos at Examined Life to enrich as well as protect...


Take-outs from CommBank Insurance Four Corners Report
If you didn’t see the recent Four Corners expose on the Commonwealth Bank’s insurance arm CommInsure, you would have seen and read the...




























