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Premium Content Subscriber only Central Queenslander drivers could be paying nearly $5,000 per year more than necessary to keep their cars running. The Finder site compared the cost of an “expensive” versus “cheap” scenario to own a car – including insurance, registration and fuel – over 12 months. An “expensive” scenario involves driving an eight-cylinder Jeep Cherokee weighing 2,500kg; not getting good rates on insurance due to a poor driving history; and paying up to 140 cents per litre for fuel. The average driver churns through 1,366 litres of fuel per year. Given that in...

Premium Content Subscriber only Police are warning Central Queenslanders not to be complacent online over the festive season as it is an opportune time for scammers to try to defraud you of your savings. Scammers ripped Australians off to the tune of $634 million in 2019 according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. As part of its Christmas Cybersafety campaign the Queensland Police Service issued the following warning about scammers. “On the night befraud Christmas Eve, the Financial and Cyber Crime Group want to remind you to be aware of elf-ish scammers this festive...