Author: ICAN

Truth telling at National Consumer Congress

Earlier this month, ICAN Director Daphne Naden gave a keynote address on the Indigenous Consumer Perspective at the National Consumer Congress in Sydney. Sharing the stage with Cynthia Gebert, Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman and the… Read more »

Meet Damian Finitsis

This month, we catch up with Damian Finitsis, the newest member of the ICAN Team.  Damian recently joined us as the Financial Capability Development Manager, responsible for leading the development and delivery of the… Read more »

Food Insecurity

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 »

Is your career ready to thrive?

2022 is shaping up to be an exciting year for ICAN and ICAN Learn, with the expansion of our financial capability work through ICAN’s new business unit, ICAN Thrive. Applications for a Financial Capability… Read more »

The Christmas Crunch: Don’t Pay Later

With Christmas only weeks away, we asked ICAN Financial Counsellor Yvette Taylor about the reality of using Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services. Many BNPL advertise their services as having no interest or charges.… Read more »

Stuck with a bomb and a big loan

In regional and remote Australia, a family vehicle is a basic and essential need. However, for over twenty years far too many people that we see are getting stuck with bomb-y cars and a… Read more »