Poverty in Australia

• How We Talk about Poverty In Australia, June 2022
• 2nd APW Election Poverty Briefing, May 2022
• APW Election Poverty Briefing, April 2022
• APW Briefing on JobSeeker and Poverty, 5 May 2021 and  APW Analysis of Coronavirus Supplement, 5 May 2021
• APW Briefing on Poverty, JobSeeker and Working Age Payments,  11 March 2021
• APW Briefing Poverty, Unemployment and COVID-19, 23 September
  Anti-Poverty Week (2020)
• APW Briefing Poverty, Health and COVID-19
  Anti-Poverty Week (2020)

See also our Fast Facts

• 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)
• Together Creating Pathways Out of Poverty
  ACT Council of Social Services (ACTCOSS) (2018)

• Is Newstart really the pacesetter Scott Morrison says it is?
  Inside Story (2019)
• It’s not just Newstart
  The Conversation (2018)

See also Anti-Poverty Week Fast Facts

• 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)
• Hunger Report Infographic
  Foodbank (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)
• Poverty in Rural and Remote Australia
  National Rural Health Alliance Inc (2017)
• ACOSS Briefing Note on Child Poverty
  ACOSS (2017)
• Young Mental Health and Homelessness Infographic 
  Mission Australia (2017)
• Australia’s Youth Unemployment Hotspots: Snapshot
  Brotherhood of St Laurence (2016)
• Are the Kids Alright: Young Australians in their Middle Years
  The Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) (2016)
• Measuring Social Exclusion
  Brotherhood of St Laurence (2016)

• Behind the Line – Poverty and disadvantage in Australia 2022, BankWest Curtain Economics Centre, 22/3/22.
• Covid, inequality and poverty in 2020 & 2021, ACOSS/UNSW Sydney Poverty and Inequality Partnership, 2/3/22.
• 2021 Jobs Availability Snapshot, Anglicare Australia 21/10/21.
• 2021 Hunger Report, Foodbank Australia, 20/10/21.
• Wilson, E., Sama, M., & Johnson, T. (2021) No fighting chance: Impact of the withdrawal of COVID-19 income and tenancy benefits, Melbourne, Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania).
• Australian income support since 2000: Those left behind, ACOSS/UNSW Sydney Poverty and Inequality Partnership, 17/10/21
• Nowhere to go: the benefits of providing long term social housing to women that have experienced domestic and family violence, July 2021, Equity Economics
• 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, July 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.
• See also APW Everybody’s Home page for more housing and homelessness resources.
• 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
• Inequality in Australia 2020: Part 2 – Who is affected and why, ACOSS/UNSW (2020)
• Inequality in Australia 2020, ACOSS/UNSW (2020)
• Jobs Availability Snapshot
  Anglicare Australia (2019)
• Foodbank Hunger Report
  Foodbank (2019)
• Rental Affordability Snapshot
  Anglicare Australia (2019)
• Living on the Edge: Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence
  Parliament of Australia (2019)
• Submissions to the Inquiry (Living on the Edge Report)
  Parliament of Australia (2019)
• Household Income and Wealth in Australia 2017-2018
  Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2019)
• Financial Counselling in a Nutshell
  Financial Counselling Australia (2019)
• Poverty in Australia 2018  Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) & UNSW (2018)
• Inequality in Australia 2018
  Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) & UNSW (2018)
• Inequality in Australia: A young person’s perspective
  Youth Action and WESTIR (2018)
• Material Deprivation and Social Exclusion: A child focused approach
  UNSW Social Policy Research Centre (2018)
• Australian Homelessness Monitor
  Launch Housing (2018)
• Rising Inequality? A Stocktake of the Evidence
  Australian Government Productivity Commission (2018)
• Money Care: 10 Years On
  The Salvation Army (2018)
• Jobs Availbility Snapshot 
  Anglicare Australia (2018)
• State of the Family: What Australians Really Think About Poverty
  Anglicare Australia (2018)
• How Unequal? Insights on Inequality
  Committee for Economic Development of Australia (2018)
• Mapping Opportunity: A National Index on Wages and Income
  The McKell Institute (2018)
• Battling On, Persistent Energy Hardship
  Victoria Council of Social Service  (2018)
• Power Struggles, Everyday Battles to Stay Connected
  Victoria Council of Social Service (2017)
• Social Policy Research Paper Number 47: Low Income and Poverty Dynamics 
  Australian Government Department of Social Services (2017)
• New Minimum Income for Healthy Living Budget Standards for Low-Paid and Unemployed Australians 
  UNSW Social Policy Research Centre (2017)

• • Poverty and Child Wellbeing: The Unicef/ARACY report The Wellbeing of Australia’s Children
  • Poverty and Child Safety: led by National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds, the Keeping kids safe and well – your voices report
  • Poverty and Child Health: A Statement from the AMA in February 2022 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.
  • Spotlight on the True Cost of Going to School by SA Children’s Commissioner and SA APW Chair 2021, 18/10/21.
  • 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, 18/10/21.
  • S. Bessell, A. Bexley and C. Vuckovic (2021), The MOR Framework, Canberra: Children’s Policy Centre, The Australian National University.
  • APW Child and Family Poverty Fast Facts, 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

• 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)
• Poverty, Social Exclusion & Disadvantage in Australia
  NATSEM (2013) & Uniting Care Children Young People & Families
  See in particular Appendix 1 State Poverty Rates 2000-01 to 2011-12 and Appendix 2 Disadvantage Indicators by LGA 2011
• Social Health Atlas of Australia
  Torrens University (2016)
• 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 2016 Census data
• Dropping off the Edge 2015: Persistent communal disadvantage in Australia
  Jesuit Social Services and Catholic Social Services Australia (2015)