19/01/2020
ICAN hit the ground running in 2020, with the exciting news that we are preparing to open our first full-time office in Atherton in early 2020! Based on the Tablelands, Far North Qld, our new... Read more »
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19/01/2020
As of the 4th January, 2020, Australia’s bushfire crisis has caused 24 fatalities and the destruction of over 2500 buildings, including over 1300 houses. The estimated $350M+ insurance bill coupled with other associated financial impacts... Read more »
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22/12/2019
2019 was another big year for ICAN and our subsidiary registered training organisation ICAN Learn, in moving towards achieving our vision of Empowering Indigenous Consumers and developing the financial counselling and capability sectors. The Annual Report... Read more »
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22/12/2019
Hi Alan, thanks for agreeing to this interview for our ‘Yarn’s from the north’ series. As stated on the phone I’ve been really impressed by your consumer advocacy and wanted to focus the story on... Read more »
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22/12/2019
A current review on the Diploma of Financial Counselling [code CHC51115] has posed a risk to the retention of core units that are part of the Financial Counselling profession. In this article, we provide... Read more »
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20/12/2019
Home, contents and strata insurance is becoming increasingly unaffordable in northern Australia, where the rate of households going without insurance is almost double that of the rest of the country, the ACCC’s latest
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05/12/2019
2019 was another big year for ICAN in moving toward our vision of ‘Empowering Indigenous Consumers’ through the provision of consumer advocacy, financial counselling and capability services. In 2019 we also witnessed the rise... Read more »
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05/12/2019
Yarnin’ Money Co-Designer and Facilitator, Eddie Buli talks about the issues around financial capability within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, how Yarnin’ is used in the delivery of training and how that... Read more »
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24/11/2019
ICAN was excited to support the “Decarbonising Remote Communities” project recently, an initiative of the Queensland Government. ICAN’s role in the larger project was to deliver energy education to the remote community of Mapoon, located in... Read more »
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24/11/2019
ICAN and service partners the Commonwealth Bank, Centrelink, Good Shepherd Microfinance, Many Rivers, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Queensland Office of Fair Trading (OFT) held a Yarnin’ Money Day event on Palm... Read more »
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20/11/2019
The Stop the Debt Trap Alliance released new data showing the scale of Australia’s payday lending crisis earlier this month. The Debt Trap: How payday lending is costing Australians provides never before seen data demonstrating... Read more »
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20/10/2019
How federal funding is empowering Palm Island residents Thanks to the support of ongoing federal funding, ICAN maintains its weekly visits to the community of Palm Island, where we continue to build and strengthen... Read more »
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