On the 18th of February 2025, Bank Australia granted Victorian Aboriginal News (VAN) $20,000, intended specifically to support of flagship product, the VAN Talks podcast.
As a direct result of that greatly appreciated financial support, VAN has been able to:
- Build our internal resources and skillsets, primarily by way of employing a permanent/part-time content editor, which means a major reduction in workload on editorial staff and improved content output quality and quantity.
- Establish a more consistent level of VAN Talks episode output, which prior to our content editor was dropping down to an episode only once every few weeks – this is now being built up to a planned two-per-week for 2026.
- Work on the development of an entirely new project, which will see 20+ video short-form “reels” developed for Instagram and Tiktok, addressing head-on the growth in misinformation about the Victorian Treaty Process.
About Bank Australia
As a leading customer-owned institution, Bank Australia occupies a unique position in the domestic market by prioritising purpose over profit.
Following its 2025 merger with Qudos Bank, it now serves over 300,000 members with $18 billion in assets.
The bank is renowned for its “clean money” promise, refusing to fund fossil fuels, tobacco, or arms. By reinvesting 4% of after-tax profits into community projects and its own 2,117-hectare conservation reserve, it remains a benchmark for ethical banking.
http://www.bankaust.com.au
