Scams It’s Personal
February 17, 2011This year’s National Consumer Fraud Week is all about you. Running from 7 to 13 March, Scams: It’s Personal focuses on the personal side and impact of scams, and how we can fight fraud that occurs on the home front. Scammers do not stop at anything to target victims, including adopting a personal touch. Increasingly [...]
REMOTE INDIGENOUS CONSUMERS STUNG BY HIGH ATM FEES
December 1, 2010Indigenous consumers living in remote areas of Australia are often paying $20 – $40 per fortnight (or more) in ATM fees, significantly reducing the amount they can spend on food and other essential items. While other Australians can avoid these fees – by using their own bank’s ATM or EFTPOS – there is typically only [...]
ICAN Workshop a Success
November 16, 2010The ICAN team from Cairns, Yarrabah, Palm Island and Thursday Island met at the Paradise Palms Resort last month for our annual workshop. The intensive three-day workshop included presentations from organisation partners James Cook University, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Queensland Office of Fair Trading, WA Central TAFE and the 20/20 Group. ICAN CEO, Aaron [...]
NAB’s Indigenous Affairs Master Class
November 10, 2010The National Austalia Bank (NAB) has produced a series of online videos entitled the Indigenous Affairs Master Class. NAB’s Indigenous Affairs Master Class is an on-line forum which provides leader’s insights into key topics and issues at the forefront of Indigenous Affairs in Australia. The Master Class is available to you at any time at [...]
Cultural disconnection- EDR Schemes and Indigenous Australia
November 3, 2010The Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network Ltd (ICAN) would like to highlight a recent essay entitled, Cultural disconnection – EDR Schemes and Indigenous Australia. Mike Collins, author of the essay has a long-standing working relationship with ICAN and recently visited our Cairns office and Jumbun, a remote Aboriginal community of in Far North Queensland. The author [...]
ACCC – Indigenous Graduate Program 2011
October 20, 2010Kick start your career and contribute to the welfare of Australian consumers, business and the wider community by joining Australia’s peak competition and consumer protection agency. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking applications from Indigenous graduates to join our Enforcement Operations team in Darwin as part of the ACCC’s 2011 Graduate Program. [...]
A Time for Expansion
October 20, 2010This Anti Poverty Week, community organisations throughout Queensland are calling for an extension of the state government-funded NILS Expansion Project. The project funds the development, support and expansion of NILS programs across Queensland. NILS, otherwise known as the No Interest Loan Scheme, offers an alternative to high-cost fringe lending and provides affordable credit to people [...]
ICAN and CBA Lead the Way for Indigenous Financial Counseling
August 11, 2010The Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network Ltd (ICAN) and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) are creating pathways to up-skill Indigenous people in financial counseling. The ICAN Indigenous Financial Counseling Mentorship Program provides support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ICAN staff to undertake accredited training in the Diploma of Community Services (Financial Counseling) as well [...]
ICAN Expands Service to the Torres Strait
July 21, 2010An exciting new program is sparking interest in financial literacy on Thursday Island (T.I.), the business centre and gateway to the eighteen islands spanning across the Torres Strait. In a partnership with Mura Kosker Sorority Inc., a local community women’s organisation, the Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network Limited (ICAN) has expanded its services of financial counseling [...]
Money Management Programs Meet Community Needs
July 20, 2010The Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network Ltd (ICAN) is increasing financial literacy and improving access to services in remote Aboriginal Queensland communities. Commencing in mid-2008, the Money Management Program (MMP) has become a well-established service in the Yarrabah and Palm Island Aboriginal communities. The program runs financial literacy training and access to financial counseling services and [...]
