By Country: Australia

Government programmes

• Understanding Money, Australia Financial Literacy Foundation
• Consumer education strategy, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
• Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA), Australia: www.mceetya.edu.au/public/public.htm
• Life Skills Education for Indigenous people, The Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC)
• The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, www.vcaa.vic.edu.au

Civil society programmes

• Financial literacy programme, The Australian Banking & Financial Services Ombudsman (BFSO), www.abio.org.au/: 
  A dispute resolution service dealing with disputes that individuals and small business have with their financial service providers.
• Disadvantaged children education, The Smith Family, www.thesmithfamily.com.au:
  The Smith Family is a national, independent non profit organisation that helps disadvantaged Australian children realise their potential through education.
  

Private sector programmes

• Australian Bankers’ Association: www.bankers.asn.au

Research and articles

• ANZ bank (2005), Adult financial literacy, personal debt and financial difficulty in Australia, 25 November 2005 (see also full report).
  
  
• ANZ bank (2005), ANZ Financial Literacy and Inclusion: Global Benchmarking Report 2005, September 2005.
  
  
• ANZ bank (2005), Kick-start your financial fitness
  
  
• Australian Consumer and Financial Literacy Taskforce (2004), Australian consumers and money, June 2004.
  
  
• Australian Consumer and Financial Literacy Taskforce (n.d.), Australian consumers and money—appendix 3
  
  
• Australian Consumer and Financial Literacy Taskforce (2004), Consumer and Financial Education in Australian Schools, June 2004. 
  
  
• Sophie Korczyk (2003), Women and Individual Social Security Accounts in Chile, Australia, and the United Kingdom, The Public Policy Institute, AARP, July 2003.