In the Yarrabah Aboriginal community, located 45 minutes south of Cairns, ICAN offers a unique training program to provide community residents with pathways to home ownership. For Ailsa Lively, a Yarrabah resident and CEO… Read more »
The Indigenous Legal Needs Project is a national study into civil and family law need of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In October, the ILNP released a written report of its Queensland findings,… Read more »
ICAN has provided the No Interest Loan Scheme to the Yarrabah and Palm Island communities for over 5 years and our clients from these communities have been able to access white goods and household… Read more »
ICAN staff members Unaise Buli and Bettina Addo were invited as guest speakers to the Indigenous Services Women’s Conference held in Cairns 13th October. The conference provided ICAN staff members with the opportunity to… Read more »
It has certainly been a long time since I’ve been to the “Place of Many Waters” (Kowanyama) and I needed to find my feet again. I did that literally and let me tell you,… Read more »
The rise in electricity costs have hurt the hip pocket of many Australians as witnessed in Yarrabah, with many Money Management clients having outstanding debts of anywhere between $1600 and $11,000. ICAN’s financial counsellors… Read more »
Scams are becoming increasingly reported from Indigenous consumers, from across cities and remote communities. As scams are becoming increasingly more common, they are also becoming more sophisticated in how they target consumers. Did you… Read more »
The ICAN team are now settled in at our new office location at 209 Buchan Street, Bungalow (Cairns). ICAN’s head office in Cairns is the hub for ICAN service activity, including: financial counselling, financial… Read more »