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Exclusive: Community support groups call for accountability and justice, saying at least one family is collecting cans to help pay for a funeral

In 2013, the government was warned that allowing funeral insurers to access Centrelink payments could end badly for customers. Almost a decade later, it did.

Youpla director Greg Wheeldon says he did his all to save the funeral insurance company from liquidation. But advocates for the thousands of people who lost their cover still want answers.

State and federal authorities raised concerns periodically, but fund continued to target vulnerable people until its final collapse in March

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For decades, First Nations people made contributions to the Aboriginal Funeral Benefit Fund. Now it's collapsed, thousands are asking: How was it allowed to trade for so long?

Incoming Indigenous affairs minster says predicament of families affected by collapse of predatory funeral fund is ‘totally unacceptable’

Staff member allegedly told colleague: ‘We aren’t here to show them respect or dignity. We are here to get money from them’

Ron Pattenden continued to make money from the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund even after selling it in the wake of damning royal commission findings

More than 100 organisations write to the federal government requesting compensation for Indigenous families affected by the collapse of funeral insurance provider Youpla Group.

Coalition of NGOs says governments knew about Youpla’s misleading conduct for decades and ‘did nothing to prevent it’