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Plea for Government help after funeral insurance scheme for Indigenous people fails

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Kuku Yalanji elder Daphne Naden Source: Supplied / Supplied

The Aboriginal Community Benefits Fund, trading under the name Youpla, collapsed in March, leaving 17,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families with nothing to pay for their loved ones' funerals.


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By Claire Slattery

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The Aboriginal Community Benefits Fund, trading under the name Youpla, collapsed in March, leaving 17,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families with nothing to pay for their loved ones' funerals.



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