Good luck!!!

In regards to electricity, you can get a discount on your winter bills with your pension card. You can also go on a fortnightly payment plan through the provider which you can either have direct debited or bpay. You can even have it taken out of your Centrelink payments, I think that's called Centrepay. Connection could be free seeing as you have a pension card too. No idea on companies though. I'm with TRU Energy and have never had any issues. Maybe shop around for the best deal, you might even be able to bargain with them