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Our friends at the Centre for Social Impact have been running excellent, deep-dive webinars over recent months and we’re delighted that they invited our CEO, Phil Usher, to co-host one. In September, Phil participated in the Understanding and designing Indigenous financial services, during and post-pandemics with Lynda Edwards (Financial Counselling Australia), Eveanne Liddle (NAB) and […]

HESTA is calling for the mining and energy industries to adopt consistent principles for engaging with Indigenous communities, saying investors are concerned risks are appropriately managed after the destruction of the Juukan Gorge Caves. HESTA has released a Statement on Working with Indigenous Communities detailing its investor expectations around how companies manage risks associated with

In 2019, the First Nations Foundation (FNF), in partnership with the Centre for Social Impact and the National Australia Bank (NAB), uncovered that just under 1 in 2 – 48 per cent – Indigenous people in Australia live in financial stress, across urban, regional and remote areas. The research showed that in the case of

The First Nations people of Australia provided the foundation for this country and remind us every day what can be achieved through focus on community and celebrating what that community can achieve. This is the ethos that we follow at Cbus. Our members are at the centre of everything we do and our focus on

This month, First Nations Foundation launched an online resource to help Indigenous Australians find, manage, and grow their superannuation. The new website – IndigenousSuper.com.au – has been launched to help Indigenous Australians learn about their superannuation, including what benefits superannuation has over the short and long term. It provides users with a ‘five-step’ plan to

At times it can feel all too easy to access finance. Getting a car loan from a lender that doesn’t ask too many questions is always appealing. Accessing $2,000 to get on top of the bills and having a little left over for yourself sounds great. Other phrases like ‘30-minute approval’ or ‘call us because

Subscribe to our Newsletter We have some great news, as we reposition what we do in the time of COVID-19. When the pandemic arrived and ours and the global economy shuddered to a crawl, we quickly realised that our annual flagship event, the Big Super Day Out, was not going to run this year. We

Subscribe to our Newsletter The last week of May each year is always significant for the Aboriginal cultural calendar. It marks two key events, Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week. This year’s theme for Reconciliation Week, “In This Together” captured the essence of what the week is really about. For me, reconciliation is about Indigenous and

Subscribe to our Newsletter If there is just one financial lesson for us to take away from COVID-19, it has to be the importance of having an emergency fund. Many people have now experienced firsthand the lag that exists between receiving work-related income, and support income. Whether it was waiting for the JobSeeker or JobKeeper

Subscribe to our Newsletter Superannuation has an important role to play in improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members. For many Indigenous people, superannuation is their largest financial asset. The insurance benefits held within superannuation are also very important, particularly given the poorer health outcomes experienced in many Indigenous communities. But while our