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Ban on remote and regional retailer Urban Rampage using Centrepay deductions made permanent
The ban on retail chain Urban Rampage entering into credit arrangements involvin...
Giovanni Torre 11 Nov 2025
Banks forced to take action over high fees exposed by 'Better Banking for Indigenous Consumers' report
Banks must ask themselves some 'difficult questions' following a review by ASIC,...
Keira Jenkins 29 Jul 2025
Urban Rampage ramps up legal action against corporate watchdog
A key retailer for First Nations people in regional Australia has ramped up its...
Brendan Foster 26 Apr 2024
Urban Rampage planning to take the corporate watchdog to court over stop order
A key retailer for First Nations people in regional Australia is planning to tak...
Brendan Foster 4 Apr 2024
Urban Rampage claims stop order from ASIC "disastrous" for First Nations customers
A store that operates in regional Australia claims an ongoing stop order from th...
Brendan Foster 19 Mar 2024
Court finds Youpla misrepresented itself as an Aboriginal-owned or managed company

The collapsed funeral fund Youpla misrepresented itself as Aboriginal owned or managed, the full Federal Court ruled on Thursday. The Youpla Group schemes, previously known as the Aboriginal Community...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 29, 2024
ASIC issues Urban Rampage with interim stop order over concerns of financial harm to First Nations consumers

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has made an interim stop order preventing Coral Coast Distributors (Cairns) Pty Ltd (CCD) from having customers at its Urban Rampage retail store...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 29, 2024
Daughter calls for reform after Aboriginal pensioner charged almost $10,000 a year for home insurance

Complaints have been filed to Australia's key financial watchdogs over an insurance provider charging an 88 year-old Aboriginal pensioner almost $10,000 a year for home coverage.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 5, 2024
ASIC launches civil proceedings against Youpla group

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has launched civil proceedings in the Federal Court against five former directors and officers of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund for a...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 1, 2023
Indigenous consumers fork out millions in "unacceptable" overdrawn banking fees

The banking regulator has revealed that First Nations people are paying up to $3000 in overdrawn fees to banks each year, which has been deemed completely unacceptable.

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Nina Hendy Jul 19, 2023
Thousands in Northern Territory to remain on income management despite abolition of cashless debit card

Thousands of people in the Northern Territory, mostly Indigenous, will remain on income management despite the federal government introducing legislation to abolish the cashless debit card on Wednesda...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 29, 2022
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