26/11/2018
Many people are either abandoning their private health insurance policies or downgrading to lower-cost, lower-benefit products as premium increases continue to outpace inflation and wage growth.
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25/11/2018
Wujal Wujal has noticed a significant change from just over two years of becoming Australia’s first Do-Not-Knock informed community. Desmond Tayley, Wujal Wujal Shire Council Mayor said, “We have witnessed a noticeable reduction in... Read more »
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25/11/2018
When the peak body for financial counselling in Victoria – the Financial and Consumer Rights Council (FCRC) – celebrated its 40thyear in . . .
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25/11/2018
Every month in the lead up to our 2019 Graduation, ICAN will be featuring the students of its “Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship . . .
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22/11/2018
This report analyses key competition and consumer developments and trends in the private health insurance industry between 1 July 2017 and 30 June 2018.
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22/10/2018
Labor Senator Jenny McAllister will move a motion in the Senate today calling for the Senate to inquire into services that are often targeted at low and middle income, financially stressed Australians.
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21/10/2018
Queenslanders currently have $170,895,033 million dollars of lost superannuation sitting idly in accounts just waiting to be claimed. In data recently released, . . .
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21/10/2018
For over ten years, the National Indigenous Consumer Strategy (NICS) has sought to improve consumer outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander . . .
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21/10/2018
Every month in the lead up to our 2019 Graduation, ICAN will be featuring the students of its “Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship . . .
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23/09/2018
ICAN Learn hosted EnergyAustralia and state financial counselling peak body leaders from Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland at a . . .
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23/09/2018
In November 2016, Good Shepherd Microfinance, on behalf of the Australian Government and in partnership with the Centre for Social Impact (UNSW) . . .
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23/09/2018
This month ICAN E-News caught up with Lynda Edwards, a Wangkumara woman with connections to the Barkindji people of Far West NSW . . .
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