As a provider of education, advocacy, and financial counselling services to people across North and Far North Queensland, ICAN recently provided a submission to the Inquiry into Supermarket Pricing in Queensland. Our submission focused… Read more »
ICAN Financial Counsellors Unaisi Buli and Zack Wildy visited Thursday Island this month to talk with people in the community who had purchased goods from Telstra. Their visit was a result of remediation funding… Read more »
ASIC’s Indigenous Financial Services Framework outlines key learnings which ASIC has developed through extensive consultations with a range of stakeholders on First Nations peoples’ access to and engagement with the financial system[1]. Here, Danille… Read more »
ICAN recently received funding from Telstra to identify any instances of product misselling across several Indigenous communities in North Queensland, from the Cape to Palm Island. The funding comes on the back of the… Read more »
Need to know Indigenous residents from remote communities in Far North Queensland are being sold dodgy cars from dealerships in Cairns The systems for redress when sold a lemon car are difficult to navigate… Read more »
Prepping is no longer a pastime reserved for fringe doomsayers or northerners stocking up for the cyclone season. Over the past weeks COVID-19’s Omicron variant has brought the country’s food supply chain to its… Read more »
Yarnin’ Money with the latest Qld Police Recruits Peter Ingrim, Protective Services Training QLD Coordinator for the Queensland Police Service (QPS), recently approached ICAN to run Yarnin’ Money with the Mob training for six… Read more »
Hi Alan, thanks for agreeing to this interview for our ‘Yarn’s from the north’ series. As stated on the phone I’ve been really impressed by your consumer advocacy and wanted to focus the story on… Read more »