Poverty



Food insecurity exists when people do not have “physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and… Read More ›

Why Australia Needs Broad-Based Social Protection Policies to Reduce Food Insecurity

Poverty rates are increasing in remote Australia, particularly in remote Indigenous communities which have among the highest poverty rates in the country. In 2021, Indigenous… Read More ›

The Poor Pay More: Why the Remote Area Allowance Needs Urgent Reform

Welfare or charity? What is the most effective mechanism for government to directly assist people in poverty to meet their essential needs such as food,… Read More ›

Increasing Government Income Support Directly Reduces the Need for People to Use Charity

In light of the government’s announcement to extend the single parenting payment to parents until their youngest child turns 14, new information has come to… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2023: How Removing Parenting Payments When Children Turned 8 Harmed Rather Than Helped Single Mothers

The discussion in the first part of this series – like most analyses of social expenditure – is based on gross (before tax) public expenditure… Read More ›

How Generous Is the British Welfare State? Part 2: The Social Division of Welfare – Taxation, the Public and Private Mix and Redistribution

With all the talk of restraint and fiscal responsibility, you may have missed that this was also Australia’s first wellbeing budget. Measuring wellbeing reflects a… Read More ›

[October Budget 2022] Australia’s First Wellbeing Budget Leaves People Behind

Financial stress is a persistent challenge for many Australian households. It is also a growing problem following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Around one… Read More ›

Refining Welfare Policy for Financial Stress

One of the first things Labor’s Bob Hawke did on being swept to office in March 1983 was to lift the unemployment benefit in April,… Read More ›

With Low Unemployment, Why JobSeeker Payments Need to Be Increased

1 2 3
top