ASFA is proud to partner with the First Nations Foundation (FNF) to deliver cultural competency training for members. This partnership will give ASFA members access to FNF’s Culture & Money Cultural Competency Training and earn ASFA CPD Points.
FNF is a not-for-profit Indigenous financial wellbeing foundation led by an Indigenous majority board since 2006.
The FNF Culture & Money Cultural Competency Training provides learners an education around First Nations peoples experiences with money. It offers culturally responsive content where participants can explore, test and question preconceived values and understandings of First Nations culture as it relates to money. Grounded in contemporary and historical contexts, learners will build rich and informed knowledge to apply when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities. The program also contains a series of superannuation sector modules targeting important topics such as First Nations people and preservation age, superannuation outreach, financial counsellors and super and identification challenges.
Cultural competency requires an awareness of cultural diversity and the ability to work effectively and respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
A culturally competent person will acknowledge:
– Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures as diverse and living.
– The influence of one’s own culture and belief systems in their interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
– Understanding around current and historical challenges faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This First Nations-led training program is designed to give a better understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures to enhance the delivery of financial services to First Nations peoples.
Core training modules:
– Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in everyday life.
– Impacts of historical events, Government legislation and policy.
– Working and communicating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, clients and colleagues.
– Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander belief, lore and family systems.
– Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perceptions of and relationships with money.
Superannuation sector modules:
– First Nations people and preservation age.
– Superannuation outreach.
– Identification challenges.
– Financial Counsellors and super.
– The importance of education.
Your organisation’s staff will have 24/7 on-demand access to FNF’s online training portal so they can learn at their own pace, with unlimited access to the training modules for 12 months.
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Acknowledgement of Country
We want to respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of these lands, seas, and waters throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders both past and present. We acknowledge the history, the resilience and the continual contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of their Country.
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Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services
Born in Brindisi, Italy, Daniel was a young child when he moved with his family to Australia. He grew up in Canberra and completed his first degrees – arts and law – at the ANU. He then completed a Master of Economics (University of Sydney) and a PhD in economics from Yale.
He lectured at Monash University, was an economic adviser in the Gillard government and was a Victorian MP from 2014 to 2018. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of Victoria, Daniel helped deliver major infrastructure projects and developed innovative financing structures for community projects.
In 2018 he was preselected for the new federal seat of Fraser and became its first MP at the 2019 election, re-elected in 2022 and 2025. From 2022 to 2025, Daniel was chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee in which he chaired inquiries; economic dynamism, competition and business formation and insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims.
In 2025, he became the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.
In August 2022, Daniel published ‘Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia’, which aims to explore the ways in which an insurance approach can improve the effectiveness of government service delivery.
