About

The Money Stuff! website was developed by the NSW Office of Fair Trading with the Department of Education to assist young people prepare for independent living by helping them deal with consumer responsibility and personal financial management.

Money Stuff! also includes a video and a range of teacher books in the subject areas of Commerce, English and Mathematics which were sent to all NSW and Victoria high schools. The teacher books are also available for downloading from the teacher resources’ section of this website.

Consumer laws affect us all. Every day of our lives we enter into numerous consumer contracts without even realising it. From simple purchases, like buying food and drink, to major purchases such as mobile phones or computers, we rely on consumer laws working in the background to protect us.

Fair Trading’s main role is to administer these consumer laws and look after the rights of consumers and advise businesses how to trade fairly and ethically, with the aim of achieving fairness, for all, within the marketplace.

Acknowledgements

Money Stuff! is a collaboration between the NSW Office of Fair Trading and the Centre for Learning Innovation (part of the Department of Education and Training).

Steering Committee

Thank you to the Money Stuff! Steering Committee: Vanessa Wood (Youth Advisory Council, Office of Children and Young People), Narelle Brown (Ryde Eastwood Financial Counselling Service), Myriam Bahari (Youth Action Policy Association) and Sue Field (Curriculum Support Directorate).

Evaluation

Thanks also to the Department of Education and Training staff involved in the evaluation of these materials:

Grace Tang (Canley Vale High School), Yvonne Robinson (Hunters Hill High School), Peter Knight (Strathfield Girls High School), Susan Busato, Penny Hutton (Curriculum Support Directorate), Jim Stammel, Lyndal Hough and Vaughan Morrison (Learning Materials Production Centre, OTEN), Jan Van Dooran and Kerry Cullen (Rooty Hill High School), S. Myers and Ted Krames (Chatswood High School), Vincent Formica and Kerrie Lindsay (Blakehurst High School), and Leanne Soloman (Airds High School Campbelltown).

The following people contributed to the evaluation of the Money Stuff website:

John Tansey (Office of Children and Young People), Beth Oakley (Newcastle Grammar School), Mark Macaulay (Strathfield Girls High School), Ros Jenner (Hunters Hill High School), students at Strathfield Girls High School, Canley Vale High School, Beverly Hills High School, Hunters Hill High School, Indigo Ware-Smiles, Peter Mitchell, Heidi Green, Kate Toohey, Robert Salt, Kevin James and Mahidine Obeide.

Joe Addison (Albury High School), Brett Dale (Cumberland High School), students at Albury High School, students at Cumberland High School, Hayley Diamond (Moorefield Girls High School), students at Moorefield Girls High School, Cassie Norris (Randwick Boys High School), students at Randwick Boys high School, Peter Macbeth (Bingara Central School), students at Bingara Central School.

Website development team

The initial concept for the website was developed by Susan Cornish and Carol Walsh.

The Centre for Learning Innovation team members responsible for the development of the new Money Stuff! website were David Boccalatte (Senior Designer), Sean Goodwin (Senior Programmer), Van Tran (CMS content input), Carol Walsh (Project Manager/Learning Designer), Alison Woodage (Senior Programmer).