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Youpla directors disqualified over collapsed funeral fund that targeted Aboriginal families

Three directors were fined a combined $90,000 in federal court judgment and disqualified from managing a corporation for between five and 10 years

The Guardian - AU · Nov 11

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

The Guardian - AU · Jul 20, 2022

New data shows disadvantaged towns paid high price for failed funeral insurer Youpla

New data shows that when funeral insurance company Youpla went into liquidation in March, some of Australia's most disadvantaged towns paid the heaviest price.

ABC News · Jul 13, 2022

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Funeral insurer Youpla 'grew and grew' off welfare payments, then collapsed

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.

ABC News · Jun 15, 2022

The inside story of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund collapse and the missing millions

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?

ABC News · May 25, 2022

Linda Burney says investigating Youpla funeral fund will be ‘top of my agenda’

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

The Guardian - AU · May 25, 2022

Yachts and mansions: founder of company that left thousands of Aboriginal people out of pocket made more than $20m, tax-free

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

The Guardian - AU · May 24, 2022

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Branch of controversial funeral insurer ACBF in liquidation, leaving thousands in the lurch

A branch of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund has gone into liquidation, owing thousands of dollars to clients.

ABC News · Mar 6, 2022

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