ICAN and service partners the Commonwealth Bank, Centrelink, Good Shepherd Microfinance, Many Rivers, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Queensland Office of Fair Trading (OFT) held a Yarnin’ Money Day event on Palm… Read more »
The Stop the Debt Trap Alliance released new data showing the scale of Australia’s payday lending crisis earlier this month. The Debt Trap: How payday lending is costing Australians provides never before seen data demonstrating… Read more »
How federal funding is empowering Palm Island residents Thanks to the support of ongoing federal funding, ICAN maintains its weekly visits to the community of Palm Island, where we continue to build and strengthen… Read more »
In part-1 of ‘Yarns’ from the North’, ICAN E-News caught up with Toni Cork, General Manager and Financial Counsellor at HK Training & Consultancy (HKTC), a registered training organisation, based in Darwin, NT. The… Read more »
If you’ve ever wanted to make a move to beautiful North Queensland and are an experienced Financial Counsellor, we have some good news for you. ICAN just extended its application period to the 31st of… Read more »
Ask ICAN’s financial counsellors how many clients present with hardship issues relating to payday loans and consumer leases, and they will tell you it’s the majority. Although Small Amount Credit Contracts (SACCs) may not always… Read more »
Financial Counsellors across Australia witness daily the mental health impacts that unmanageable debt can have on their clients. What happens when your client has already suffered a traumatic event and the financial stress becomes… Read more »
ICAN’s recent study tour of Canada allowed us to catch up with one of our favourite people on the planet, Professor Jerry Buckland.Jerryis the Professor of International Development Studies, Menno Simons College at the University… Read more »