Useful Resources
Major Reports
- The Extent and Nature of Poverty in Australia
Final Report of Senate Community Affairs Committee Inquiry (2024) - Inequality in Australia 2024: Who is affected and why
ACOSS/UNSW Poverty & Inequality Partnership (2024) - Foodbank Hunger Report 2023
- Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research, The Prevalence of and Recovery from Negative Earnings Shocks (2023)
- Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research, Individual Earning Changes and the Business Cycle (2023)
- The Extent and Nature of Poverty in Australia
Interim Report of Senate Community Affairs Committee Inquiry (2023) - Inequality in Australia 2023 Overview
ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership (2023) - Poverty in Australia 2023 Who is Affected?
ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership (2023) - How We Talk about Poverty In Australia, June 2022
- Poverty in Australia 2022
ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership (2022) - Financial Stress and Well-Being Report
UnitingCare Australia/NATSEM (2022) - Nothing Left to Give: Emergency relief across the Anglicare Australia Network
Anglicare Australia (2022) - Foodbank Hunger Report 2022
Foodbank (2022) - Behind the Line – Poverty and disadvantage in Australia 2022, BankWest Curtain Economics Centre (2022)
- Covid, inequality and poverty in 2020 & 2021, ACOSS/UNSW Sydney Poverty and Inequality Partnership (2022)
- 2021 Jobs Availability Snapshot, Anglicare Australia 21/10/21.
- 2021 Hunger Report, Foodbank Australia (2021)
- Wilson, E., Sama, M., & Johnson, T. No fighting chance: Impact of the withdrawal of COVID-19 income and tenancy benefits, Melbourne, Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) (2021)
- , ACOSS/UNSW Sydney Poverty and Inequality Partnership (2021)
- Nowhere to go: the benefits of providing long term social housing to women that have experienced domestic and family violence, Equity Economics (2021)
- The household, income and labour dyamics in Australia Survey
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (2020) - A Pathway to Social Justice, October 2020, The Salvation Army
- Jobs Availability Snapshot, October 2020, Anglicare Australia
- Foodbank Hunger Report, October 2020
- Australian Council of Social Service, Inequality in Australia 2020: Part 1, Overview, September 2020
- Anglicare Australia, Rental Affordability Snapshot Special Update, September 2020
- Mission Australia, Staying home: A Youth Survey report on young people’s experience of homelessness, (2020).
- Social Housing Acceleration and Renovation Program (SHARP) which details how building 30,000 social homes over the next four years will create up to 18,000 jobs per year while combatting homelessness.
- Poverty in Australia 2020: Part 2 – Who is Affected? ACOSS/UNSW (2020)
- Poverty in Australia 2020: Part 1, Overview
ACOSS/UNSW (2020) - Inequality in Australia 2020: Part 1 ACOSS/UNSW (2020)
- Inequality in Australia 2020: Part 2 – Who is affected and why, ACOSS/UNSW (2020)
- Inequality in Australia 2020, ACOSS/UNSW (2020)
- Living on the Edge: Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence
Parliament of Australia (2019)
APW Guides and Briefing
See Latest Briefings – Anti-Poverty Week (antipovertyweek.org.au)
- 2nd APW Election Poverty Briefing, May 2022
See also our Fast Facts
Videos & Podcasts
- Who experiences poverty in Australia and what can we do about it? Life Course Centre Anti-Poverty Week Podcast, released 17/10/21.
- Poverty and COVID-19
Committee for Economic Development of Australia (2020) - We Need to Talk About Newstart
Financial Counselling Australia (2019) - Raise the Rate: Interactive Animation
St Vincent de Paul Society (2019) - Life Below the Poverty Line
On Overnights with Trevor Chappell, ABC News (2019)
Factsheets and Infographics
See also Anti-Poverty Week Fast Facts
- Poverty in Australia 2023: Who is affected Infographic
ACOSS/UNSW (2023) - Hunger Report web summary
Foodbank (2022) - Hunger Report Infographic
Foodbank (2020) - Inequality in Australia Infographic ACOSS/UNSW (2020)
- Poverty in Australia Infographic
and Poverty in Australia: Who is affected Infographic
ACOSS/UNSW (2020) - Poverty in Rural and Remote Australia
National Rural Health Alliance Inc (2017)
Child and Family Poverty Reports
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- The Wellbeing of Australia’s Children, Unicef/ARACY (2023)
- APW Child and Family Poverty Fast Facts (2023)
- Poverty and Child Safety: led by National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds, the Keeping kids safe and well – your voices report (2022)
- Poverty and Child Health: A Statement by the AMA and supported by ACOSS; the Academy of Child and Adolescent Health; the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. They also sort a commitment from the major parties to fund and implement the recommendations in the recently released National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy. (2022)
- Power to Persuade, Poverty and its effects on school-aged children: Understanding the consequences of policy choices, Professor Sharon Bessell. (2021)
- Spotlight on the True Cost of Going to School by SA Children’s Commissioner and SA APW Chair 2021 (2021)
- New research on inequity in children’s access to extracurricular resources released by Prof Gerry Redmond & Dr Alex O’Donnell, Flinders University. See also Media Backgrounder – Extracurricular Activities Disadvantage, (2021).
- S. Bessell, A. Bexley and C. Vuckovic (2021), The MOR Framework, Canberra: Children’s Policy Centre, The Australian National University. (2021)
- 100 Families WA project including their Speaking from Experience video series. (2021)
- The Life Course Centre, Understanding the links between women, violence and poverty, analysis for Anti-Poverty Week, August 2021.
- The Smith Family, Emerging from COVID-19: Insights Snapshot, 29 May 2021.
- Ben Phillips and Vivikth Narayanan, Financial Stress and Social Security Settings in Australia, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, April 2021. Read a 5 page summary here and watch the 27 April 2021 webinar.
- Power to Persuade, Poverty and its effects on school-aged children: Understanding the consequences of policy choices, Professor Sharon Bessell, 20/4/21
- Brotherhood of St Laurence, Towards a brighter future for low-income women, March 2021
- Davidson, P., Bradbury, B., Hill, T. and Wong, M. (2020), Poverty in Australia 2020: Who is affected? ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership Report No. 4, Sydney: ACOSS.
- Bowman, D & Wickramasinghe, S 2020, Trampolines not traps: enabling economic security for single mothers and their children, Brotherhood of St. Laurence, Fitzroy, Vic
- Power to Persuade, I should be able to provide that, Natalie Javanovski, 19/2/19
- To Have and to Have Not: Measuring child deprivation and opportunity in Australia, The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) (2019)
- Anglicare Australia, Position Statement on Children and Young People, 2019
- A Summary of Selected Findings on Children and Families in Australia
The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) (2018) - Child Social Exclusion, Poverty and Disadvantage in Australia
Uniting Care (2018) - ACOSS Briefing Note on Child Poverty
ACOSS (2017)
Poverty Data by State or Local Area
- UnitingCare Australia, Child Social Inclusion Index Report, (2024)
- Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research, Community Profile interactive maps: comparing Census 2021 with Census 2016, (2023)
- Mapping Disadvantage in NSW, NCOSS (2023)
- Dropping off the Edge 2021 Report, Jesuit Social Services (2021)
- Homelessness and social housing need heat maps by Federal electorate, Everybody’s Home (2020)
- Mapping Disadvantage in NSW NCOSS (2019)
- Every Suburb, Every Town: Mapping Poverty in Victoria
Victoria Council of Social Service (2018) - Quickstats
A fast, simple way to understand an area at a glance and is intended for anyone wanting quick summary information about an area using 2021 Census data