For over ten years, the National Indigenous Consumer Strategy (NICS) has sought to improve consumer outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The strategy has been delivered through a series of action plans… Read more »
Every month in the lead up to our 2019 Graduation, ICAN will be featuring the students of its “Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship Program” here in our E-News. This month, we meet Norma Callaghan, a… Read more »
ICAN Learn hosted EnergyAustralia and state financial counselling peak body leaders from Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland at a workshop in Cairns earlier this month. The purpose of the workshop was… Read more »
In November 2016, Good Shepherd Microfinance, on behalf of the Australian Government and in partnership with the Centre for Social Impact (UNSW) and EY, launched the Financial Inclusion Action Plan (FIAP) Program, along with… Read more »
This month ICAN E-News caught up with Lynda Edwards, a Wangkumara woman with connections to the Barkindji people of Far West NSW and a star already burning bright. After working for 13 years as… Read more »
In the 2018 May ICAN E-news, we reported on the potential financial impacts of the Palm Island apology’s $30 M settlement scheme. The settlement addressed the racially discriminative Queensland police response to the 2004… Read more »
For the first time, the National Indigenous Consumer Strategy (NICS) annual consumer law conference was held in an Indigenous community, on Gunggandji country, at Yarrabah on the 31 July 2018, as part of its… Read more »
Every month in the lead up to our 2019 Graduation, ICAN will be featuring the students of its “Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship Program” here in the ICAN E-News. The Mentorship program provides nationally accredited… Read more »