After the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping and sales, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is reminding consumers of their rights and warning them to be wary of unfair business practices. Fair Trading… Read more »
A financial storm of Yasi proportions has once again headed straight towards Townsville with 1500 jobs expected to vanish in 2016. The well publicised sacking of 237 nickel refinery and Townsville Port workers is… Read more »
In early December, the Yarnin’ Money team visited the Northern Peninsula Area (NPA) of Cape York to deliver the first “Yarnin Money with the Mob” training under “Yarnin’ Money”, ICAN’s three-year financial literacy outreach… Read more »
Our successes over the past year can be attributed to the organisational values ICAN’s co-founders set to paper 9 years ago. To honor this, we celebrate our achievements in the context of our values… Read more »
In the lead up to our 2016 Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship Program Graduation, we will feature two students in every edition of the ICAN E-News. In Part 3 of the series, we meet Damien… Read more »
In the lead up to our 2016 Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship Program Graduation, we are featuring two students of the “Mentorship Program” in every edition of the ICAN E-News. In part 2 of the… Read more »
In 2013, ICAN staff on Palm Island saw a number of clients who were experiencing financial hardship as a result of making (or attempting to make) large fortnightly payments to Chrisco. We saw clients who… Read more »