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Amanda lost her home in a bushfire, but her insurance covered the costs.
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Amanda Scully s family always had a fire plan.
But by the time the bushfire had ripped through their NSW town of Malua Bay on New Years Eve in 2019, plan A quickly became plan C. Our home was completely destroyed. There was nothing left, she says.
For Amanda, having insurance was worth it for the temporary accommodation cover alone. We had to live somewhere else in a lease of $550 a week. So to have to pay that on top of doing the rebuild, that would just be too much.
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Dash cams are an increasingly common fixture in today s cars, but do they offer any added benefit beyond peace of mind?
While advent of 360-degree cameras, internet connectivity and all-round sensors on modern cars has arguably improved road safety no end, accidents still happen – although now, it s a lot easier to tell who s at fault.
For the uninitiated, dash cams are either external or in-built video devices which record events happening around a car at any given moment.
According to dash cam manufacturer Nextbase,
one in four Australians already use a dash cam to record their driving, and