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Youpla/ACBF funeral fund

May 2024

  • Youpla logo

    Indigenous investigations
    About a third of $96m ACBF-Youpla victim support scheme to be spent on administration

    National Indigenous Australians Agency and Services Australia will receive about $30m to run program for Aboriginal victims of predatory funeral fund

February 2024

  • Linda Burney speaking in parliament

    Indigenous investigations
    Labor to provide $97m for victims of predatory insurance provider ACBF-Youpla

    The support program will run for two years and aim to bring ‘peace of mind’ to thousands of Indigenous Australians

August 2023

  • Ron Pattenden, one of the former directors of ACBF/Youpla who is being pursued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

    Youpla directors pursued by Asic over collapsed funeral fund that hurt Aboriginal families

    Corporate regulator launches court action alleging former directors oversaw structure that left members vulnerable

April 2023

  • Youpla logo

    Indigenous investigations
    Youpla profits surged after it was approved for federal government’s automatic payments system

    New data reveals the scale of how many Indigenous people were impacted by the disgraced funeral fund

March 2023

  • From left, Mark Holden, Bettina Cooper, Linda Burney and Stephen Jones

    Youpla victims asking ‘when they should die’ to be eligible for funeral relief, advocates say

  • Six people who each who lost thousands of dollars after the collapse of ABCF-Youpla

    Indigenous investigations
    ‘A kick in the guts’: ACBF-Youpla victims still waiting for millions in compensation

November 2022

  • Youpla Group logo

    Indigenous investigations
    Asic seeks record $7.5m penalty against ACBF-Youpla for alleged deceptive and misleading conduct

    Corporate regulator alleges funeral insurer engaged in ‘deliberate and knowing conduct of preying on vulnerable Aboriginal people’

October 2022

  • Youpla Group logo

    Youpla collapse: ACCC warns funeral directors against ripping off victims

    Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says people should not reveal to funeral providers they are eligible for payments from government scheme

September 2022

  • Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney

    Indigenous investigations
    Youpla funeral fund: compensation scheme to begin for Aboriginal victims of predatory insurer

    Exclusive: People who took out insurance with collapsed insurer at 1 April 2020 to receive payout equal to original promised amount

August 2022

  • Daphne (no surname please) from Far North Queensland, photographed in Parliament House Canberra this afternoon. Tuesday 2nd August 2022. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Story by Sarah Collard. Guardian Australia.

    Half of Youpla insurance holders fear they won’t be able to provide culturally appropriate funeral

    Survey finds collapse of insurer has left thousands worried about going into debt or even using superannuation to cover costs

July 2022

  • Australia's first female Aboriginal Indigenous Affairs Minster, Linda Burney at her Kogorah office in Sydney, Australia. Linda Burney is the federal member for Barton in Sydney's south.

    Indigenous investigations
    Labor pledges $4m for Aboriginal families affected by Youpla funeral fund collapse

    The emergency relief package for families struggling to pay for burials includes a payout for expenses equal to the one they were promised by the disgraced insurer
  • Ron Pattenden’s yacht, Dream Catcher, moored in Port Vila harbour, Vanuatu

    Youpla funeral insurance founder’s multimillion-dollar yacht arrives in Vanuatu

    The company founded by Ron Pattenden collapsed owing millions in unpaid policies to thousands of low-income Aboriginal families
  • Delia Lowe

    Indigenous investigations
    The elders fearing death – and generational debt – after Youpla funeral fund collapse

    In the postcodes worst hit by the collapse of the funeral insurer, older Aboriginal people are ‘torn apart’ by the thought they have no way to pay for a funeral they thought they had already paid for

June 2022

  • Deborah Sebastian

    Indigenous investigations
    Youpla funeral fund collapse leaves 31 Aboriginal families struggling to pay for burials

    Exclusive: Community support groups call for accountability and justice, saying at least one family is collecting cans to help pay for a funeral
  • Kali Sailor stands in front of the Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait flag on the deck of her far north Queensland home

    Full Story
    The funeral fund accused of targeting vulnerable Aboriginal communities

    Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to senior business reporter Ben Butler and Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam about the collapse of Youpla - a funeral fund that has left thousands of low-income Aboriginal people unable to pay for funerals

    • Indigenous investigations
      Youpla funeral fund collapse: liquidator investigates whether founder committed crime

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      Morning mail: cabinet meets amid rising cost-of-living concerns, plastic clean-up success, death rate fell in 2020

    • Youpla funeral fund collapse: minister seeks advice on compensating victims

May 2022

  • Aboriginal flag

    Indigenous investigations
    Consumer groups urge Asic to mount full investigation into collapsed funeral fund Youpla

  • Aboriginal flag in front of federal parliament

    Indigenous investigations
    Youpla: how Aboriginal funeral fund evaded regulators despite 30 years of complaints

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