Flooded with Debt: A Case Study
Life was good for Jacob and Ivy*. Like most young couples starting out, they moved into a rental property in Townsville which they proudly called home, and were excited to be living independently from… Read more »
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Generosity reigns during COVID-19
For over ten years, ICAN’s website PayPal donation button sat alone in cyberspace waiting for a donor’s generosity. Competing with so many worthy charities, and sitting within an organisation that never invested the time… Read more »
Empowering Community Services
Ergon, Powerlink and ICAN Learn announce a new Diploma of Financial Counselling Scholarship Program, to support the development of new financial counsellors in regional Queensland. Financial counselling and community support services are expecting increased… Read more »
CBA Indigenous and Multicultural Scholarship Applications are now open!
ICAN and our social enterprise, ICAN Learn, would like to thank the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) for their ongoing commitment and continued partnership to support diversity, by building the representation of Indigenous and… Read more »
Price Gouging Update
If you read our May E-News story, ‘Help ICAN and CHOICE make price gouging illegal!’, you’ll know that ICAN and CHOICE wrote a joint letter to the QLD Attorney General, proposing new legislation to… Read more »
Help ICAN and CHOICE make price gouging illegal!
The recent COVID-19 panic buying spree left most of us feeling frustrated and bewildered. More alarmingly, it left the elderly and our most vulnerable at risk of not having access to essential everyday items… Read more »
It’s Time to Reconnect
The current COVID-19 landscape has posed extreme new health threats to vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Australia. Communities already struggling with limited access to services are now physically isolated, more than… Read more »
Scamwatch: Coronavirus
Unfortunately, as the effects of the Covid-19 virus in Australia have become increasingly serious, a number of scammers have sought to take advantage of consumers. The ACCC’s Consumer Consultative Committee (of which ICAN is… Read more »