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Indigenous foundation teams up with super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
First Nations Foundation (FNF) has launched an online resource to help Indigenous Australians find, manage, and grow their superannuation. The platform has been supported by a number of superannuation funds and financial services providers, including ...

Rio Tinto decision exposes limits of super engagement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... hopes of preventing similar events from occurring in future. That engagement was on the back of the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites at Juukan Gorge by the mining company. But OM Holdings has its own history of destroying sacred sites to make way ...

CBA donates $2m to community charities

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... charities given the extremely challenging operating environment." Organisations receiving the grants include homelessness, Indigenous disadvantage, domestic violence and cancer-support charities. One such organisation is Tranby, a national education ...

First Nations Foundation gets COVID-19 funding

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
... executive Phil Usher said. "This announcement is welcome given we have long said that the best outcomes for Indigenous Australians are achieved when they are helped by Indigenous-led organisations." The other recipients of funding are Beam Australia ...

Super funds keep eye on Rio Tinto review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... processes with keen interest, following the miner's decision to destroy thousands of years of culturally significant Indigenous sites in the Pilbara. Rio Tinto independent non-executive director and former public servant Michael L'Estrange will ...

Hold super accountable for miners' actions: Future Super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... super funds accountable for investing in companies which have destroyed sites of cultural significance to Indigenous Australians. Future Super co-founder and managing director Kirstin Hunter has disavowed the plans of mining giant BHP, which may destroy ...

Big Super Day Out success, but more to be done

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... First Nations Foundation's 2019 Big Super Day Out reconnected more than $9.5 million in superannuation with Indigenous Australians. Taking off in July, the Indigenous-led super roadshow hit Darwin, Kununurra and Broome before heading to East Arnhem Land ...

Banks sluggish on Indigenous financial inclusion

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
Indigenous Australians are being let down by financial institutions' failure to provide access to basic banking services and recognise different cultural attitudes towards money, a new report from the First Nations Foundation reveals. Of the 620 ...

Australians lose record amount to scams

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
Older Australians, Indigenous Australians and those with a disability have reported record losses to scams in 2018, including more than $85 million to dodgy investments. Australians in total lost almost half a billion dollars to scams in 2018. However ...

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... technology; $400 million for genomics research; $80 billion on healthcare; $160 million to improve the health of Indigenous Australians; $300 billion for schools; $453 million to pre-school education; and $328 million to women's safety. The Government ...