ICAN’s Elizabeth Carr is a passionate advocate for First Nations people. She yarned to us this month about how obtaining a CommBank Scholarship transformed her life. Now, she wants other First Nations people to… Read more »
Photo Credit: GetUp Strengthening Food Security in Remote First Nations Communities ICAN is united with CHOICE, Community Credit Legal Service Western Australia (CCLSWA), Financial Counselling Australia (FCA), Financial Rights Legal Centre (FRLC), and Mob… Read more »
ANZ welcomes funding from the Federal Government to expand the reach of MoneyBusiness Coach Training through delivery partner Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN). Over the next twelve months, ICAN will upskill community professionals nationally… Read more »
Today, ICAN releases its literature review: A study of local economic abuse in First Nations communities with a special focus on Australia and Canada. The study was undertaken by Professor Jerry Buckland from the… Read more »
As a provider of education, advocacy, and financial counselling services to people across North and Far North Queensland, ICAN recently provided a submission to the Inquiry into Supermarket Pricing in Queensland. Our submission focused… Read more »
ICAN Financial Counsellors Unaisi Buli and Zack Wildy visited Thursday Island this month to talk with people in the community who had purchased goods from Telstra. Their visit was a result of remediation funding… Read more »
ASIC’s Indigenous Financial Services Framework outlines key learnings which ASIC has developed through extensive consultations with a range of stakeholders on First Nations peoples’ access to and engagement with the financial system[1]. Here, Danille… Read more »
ICAN recently received funding from Telstra to identify any instances of product misselling across several Indigenous communities in North Queensland, from the Cape to Palm Island. The funding comes on the back of the… Read more »