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JUST MONEY

Royce Kurmelovs

Misadventures in the Great Australian Debt Trap

From award-winning journalist Royce Kurmelovs comes a brilliantly illuminating exploration of how Australians became some of the most indebted people in the world.

The debt business is booming. Millions of Australians grapple with credit cards, mortgages and student debt repayments each day. As the result of a car crash without insurance, investigative journalist Royce Kurmelovs finds himself among them. When a debt collector knocks on his door, he embarks on a journey through the underbelly of the Australian financial system. Though friends tell him not to worry, that it's ‘just money', he learns the opposite is true: our relationship with debt is a convergence of class and power, making it an urgent social justice issue for a growing number of people.

Just Money is a timely and important book that reveals how years of political opportunism and rapacious business practices in the ‘Lucky Country' have forged a nation that is leaving the next generation to pick up the tab.

Royce Kurmelovs is a journalist and writer whose work has been published by the ABC, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera English, VICE, The Guardian and other publications. Royce's bestselling first book, The Death of Holden, was published in 2016 and his critically acclaimed second book, Rogue Nation, was published in 2017. Boom and Bust is his third book. He worked as a media adviser to Nick Xenophon between 2015 and 2016.
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Published 2020-09-01 by University of Queensland Press

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"Just Money is an extraordinary work that burrows below the surface of a common Australian myth. Kurmelovs furnishes us with a detailed, sobering and sometimes darkly comic account of a financial game that has been rigged against us, especially for those who are poor or struggling. Australia's system of debt is a hall of mirrors and Kurmelovs takes us on an illuminating tour of financial distress and the forces that shape it. This is an important book and Kurmelovs is a master of precision, wit and understanding." — Rick Morton, author of One Hundred Years of Dirt