$30 million Palm Island class action settlement creates new challenges
27/05/2018
ICAN first heard that the Queensland Government had agreed to pay $30 million and apologise to Palm Island residents as a Federal . . .
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Susan Cook, Winner of 2018 Jan Pentland Prize
21/05/2018
Susan Cook from Moneycare has won the Jan Pentland Prize Winner at the 2018 Financial Counselling Australia Conference held in Hobart.
Susan Cook works for Moneycare (Salvation Army) as a Financial Counsellor (Problem Gambling).
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Mentorship program’s rising stars – part 1
20/04/2018
In the lead up to our 2019 Graduation, ICAN will be featuring scholarship winners of its “Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship Program” in . . .
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Yarnin’ without borders
20/04/2018
Eddie Buli and Carmen Hegarty from the Yarnin’ Money team have been clocking up the miles again in April, crisscrossing the country . . .
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Work placement key to quality education
20/04/2018
As the Commonwealth Bank sponsored Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship program second block training got underway. Noema Mahutariki from The Benevolent Society in . . .
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Dick's push to stop payday loan sharks ripping off residents
04/04/2018
COMMUNITY groups have joined Federal Member for Oxley Milton Dick in declaring they will not rest until payday loan sharks stopped from ripping off residents.
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ICAN officially becomes one of thirty FIAP Trailblazers
25/03/2018
ICAN CEO, Aaron Davis, was honored to attend the Financial Inclusion Action Plan (FIAP) Executive Breakfast Event, held in Sydney on 21 . . .
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Yarnin’ Money on Thursday Island
25/03/2018
Last month, ICAN’s Yarnin’ Money program experienced its largest training group to date, delivering financial capability training to thirty-five job seekers and . . .
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Meet ICAN Learn’s new lead lecturer
25/03/2018
ICAN Learn has really hit the ground running in its first year of operation as a registered training organisation with five Diploma of Financial Counselling . . .
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Lobbying Continues – Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms
25/02/2018
In September 2017, ICAN covered a joint lobbying campaign organised by the Consumer Action Law Centre (CALC), when consumer advocates from . . .
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FC’s Focus on Domestic Violence Training
25/02/2018
Last week, ICAN staff joined twenty-seven service providers from across the Cairns and Townsville regions, in a two-day family violence training workshop, . . .
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Checking in with Anne-Maree
25/02/2018
In mid-2017, ICAN launched a new partnership with the Tableland Community NILS, under our Financial Inclusion Program, funded by the Queensland Government. . . .
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