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 »
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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 »
Senate Committee finds we must permanently increase income support
ACOSS Media Release The Australian Council of Social Service welcomes the report of the Senate Inquiry into the Adequacy of Newstart. The Committee recommends that the JobSeeker (formerly Newstart), Youth Allowance and Parenting Payments… Read more »
URGENT CALL FOR ACTION COVID 19
We are three members of the Cairns Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community concerned about a number of issues in relation to the response for Covid 19 and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities… Read more »
Corona Preppers
The ICAN team have systematically gone into Coronavirus COVID-19 prepper mode. At the time of writing this article, North Queensland has been minimally impacted; that is with the exception of the crazy doomsday shoppers.… Read more »
Northern Star
Welcome home Jillian! How does it feel to be back in Cairns? It feels exactly like coming home! Growing up here, I never appreciated how beautiful it is. Now, everywhere I go I am… Read more »