Author: ICAN

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 »

The Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN) is seeking prospective directors with complimentary skills to govern the organisation and ICAN learn, its subsidiary social enterprise registered training organisation (RTO). ICAN’s board is accepting Expressions of… Read more »

On Friday, July 6th, $2.6M of superannuation was located for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in Cairns, when they attended the Big Super Day Out event held during the annual NAIDOC Week… Read more »

Re-posted with permission of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation By Sharnie Kim A former used car salesman who was fined $1.2 million for repeatedly signing up poor, Indigenous people in far north Queensland to exorbitant… Read more »

Hi!  My name is Noema Mahutariki, I work for the Benevolent Society in Cairns as a Community Development Officer and Saver Plus Co-ordinator and have recently started studying for my Diploma of Financial Counselling… Read more »