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/ 15 March 2006

Time for a financial health check

By Maya Fisher French
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The middle of January is probably the worst time of the year for everybody. New Year’s resolutions have already been broken; people are experiencing back-to-work blues while counting the days to the next public holiday, which is unbelievably a whole three months away. Then there are the bills.

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