Contents insurance

Contents insurance covers a wide range of items – from furniture to jewellery to TVs and laptops. It even covers your carpet and curtains.
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Key benefits

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    Theft and vandalism
    Cover stolen items and damage to your items from theft and vandalism, including stolen keys.

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    Flood, storm and storm surge
    Cover for loss or damage to your items caused by flood, rainwater run-off, storm, storm surge and tsunami.

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    Fire
    Cover for loss and damage to your items caused by fire (including bushfire).

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    Temporary accommodation
    If your home can't be lived in after a covered event, CGU pays for temporary accommodation.

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    No excess for food spoilage
    If your fridge stops working after a covered event, CGU will pay for spoiled food and prescription medicine.

Optional cover

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Accidental damage

Add cover for damage to your items from unintentional mishaps in your home.
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Valuable contents

Increase your cover for some items in your home like art, jewellery and collectables. 
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Motor burnout

Add cover for electric motor burnout in appliances (like washing machines), including parts and labour.
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Portable contents

Choose to cover items like glasses, jewellery, laptops and mobile phones when you take them outside your home.
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Want premium cover?

Choose Home Contents Plus when you’re getting a quote.

Home Contents Plus gives you:

  • 2 years’ temporary accommodation if you can’t live in your home, instead of 12 months with Contents Insurance Standard.
  • Plus, motor burnout and accidental damage automatically included.
  • As well as higher limits on some inclusions, like food spoilage.

Read the Product Disclosure Statement to see exactly what’s included.

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Product overview

For most people their personal possessions are valuable and often costly to replace. Protect the things you love from the unexpected with contents insurance through People First Bank. Our contents insurance, provided by CGU, lets you pick and choose options that best suit you. You have the option to add optional valuables cover to make sure you're only paying for the cover you want. Your cover could help replace your contents in the event of flood, storm, fire, theft and much more.

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Do some quick maths

Use our online content insurance calculator to help you estimate how much insurance you might need.

Compare your cover

This table compares the cover CGU provides under the types of insurance and levels of cover it offers. The amount and extent of cover, including additional benefits and optional benefits, may also vary depending on the cover selected. For detailed terms, conditions, limitations, and exclusions, please read the Product Disclosure Statement

Cover

Building Plus

Contents Plus

Building Standard

Contents Standard

Cover for loss or damage to Your Home and Contents

Accidental breakage of glass

Animal damage

Deliberate or intentional act

Earthquake

Escape of water or liquid

Explosion

Fire

Flood or Rainwater Run-off

Impact

Lighting

Riot or civil commotion

Storm

Storm Surge or tsunami

Theft or attempted theft

Cover for liability

Additional benefits

Accidental damage for Contents in transit to new home

Buying a new home

Contents away from Your Home

Contents in storage

Contents in the open air

Contents in transit

Food spoilage

Funeral expenses

Identity Theft

Landscaping

Locating the cause of damage

Meeting building regulations

Mortgage discharge costs

Moving to a new home

Owner fixtures – Strata Scheme

Professional and rebuilding fees

Removal of debris

Replacement of keys and locks

Safety net

Storage costs

Students living away from Home

Temporary accommodation

Visitors’ belongings

Optional benefits

Accidental damage – at Your Home

Automatically included

Automatically included

Optional

Optional

Electrical motor burnout

Automatically included

Automatically included

Optional

Optional

Portable Contents – away from Your Home

Optional

Optional

Valuable Contents – inside Your Home

Optional

Optional

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Ready to get a quote?

You can get a quote online today.
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Need to make an insurance claim?

Call CGU’s claims team 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 13 24 80.

Home, landlord or motor vehicle claims can also be made online by logging into your CGU online account if your policy was first purchased after 16 June 2025, or renewed after 9 August 2025.

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Managing your insurance online

If your policy was purchased after 16 June 2025, or renewed after 9 August 2025, you can make certain updates online, such as adjusting your excess amounts or optional benefits.

For significant changes, like purchasing a new car, please call us directly on 13 11 82.

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