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Bringing money conversations to life. Announcing Money x Refinery29 Australia.

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Conversations about your money are about to get personal. Money x Refinery29 Australia.

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<h2>Are you ready to talk about money?</h2>Money has gone from taboo to trending, and we’re here for it. Why? Because Refinery29 Australia and Money have a shared mission: to empower you when it comes to your finances. And the best way to get started is to talk about it. Today, money isn’t equitable. Women still get paid less than men (on average, Australian women <a href="https://www.wgea.gov.au/publications/australias-gender-pay-gap-statistics" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">earn $261 less a week</a> - and studies show <a href="https://theconversation.com/theres-a-gay-wage-gap-and-its-linked-to-discrimination-159956" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">there is a gap for queer, gender-nonconforming and trans folk too</a> when compared with cis men).&nbsp; <a href="https://www.financialcapability.gov.au/files/financial-literacy-in-australia-insights-from-hilda-data.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Research </a>shows that men are more likely to grow up having open conversations about their money, meaning they get a leg-up on financial literacy and how to make informed spending decisions.&nbsp;

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Through this partnership, we are committed to creating content that prompts thoughtful conversations, reflects the diversity of experiences with money, and helps women and gender diverse folk connect with both their own money and a community of people on the same journey.&nbsp; That’s right: we want to talk about money. Refinery29’s viral Money Diaries is finally coming to Australia. This wildly popular series publishes real-life diaries from anonymous readers who let us peek into their lives, sharing everything they spend over the course of a week.

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For anyone that’s already hooked, you’ll know that each diary is so much more than a record of expenses: it reflects the full range of human experience (and emotion) - from what it’s like to be a working <a href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/money-diary-london-drag-queen-part-two" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">drag queen</a> in London to <a href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/baker-minneapolis-mn-income-money-diary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a baker from Minneapolis</a> who sends anarchist Christmas cards and steals from her co-op. But there are also much less dramatic diarists who are equally engaging, like this attorney from Boston <a href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/attorney-boston-ma-salary-money-diary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">who donated her whole COVID stimulus check</a> (but swears she is not normally this “virtuous”). Bringing the series to Australia means that we will soon get a deeper understanding of what money looks like in the context of our lives. Reading the experience of others as they interact with their money will help to empower us on our own journey.&nbsp;

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<h2>Together, we learn and grow</h2>Through this partnership, Money and Refinery29 Australia will help bring Money Diaries to life in a way that’s never been seen before. Inspiring, real-life accounts will be brought to life in the Money App to give you context for your own path towards financial freedom.&nbsp; We hope you’ll find inspiration, motivation and community through these diaries as you use Money by Afterpay to write your own Money Story from personalised insights and then take action based on your incomings, outgoings and life goals.&nbsp; When we come together to talk about money, we share our stories, we learn from each other, and we start to build a community – &nbsp;which only makes us stronger. This is just the beginning.

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