Useful Resources
APW Guides and Briefing
- APW Briefing Poverty, Unemployment and COVID-19, 23 September
Anti-Poverty Week (2020) - APW Briefing Poverty, Health and COVID-19
Anti-Poverty Week (2020) - Talking about COVID-19
Anti-Poverty Week (2020) - How We Talk About Poverty
Anti-Poverty Week (2019)
Videos & Podcasts
Committee for Economic Development of Australia (2020)
Financial Counselling Australia (2019)
St Vincent de Paul Society (2019)
On Overnights with Trevor Chappell, ABC News (2019)
ACT Council of Social Services (ACTCOSS) (2018)
Articles
- Is Newstart really the pacesetter Scott Morrison says it is?
Inside Story (2019) - It’s not just Newstart
The Conversation (2018)
Factsheets and Infographics
- 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)
Major Reports
- 2021 Hunger Report released by 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
Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) & UNSW (2018) - Inequality in Australia
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)
Child and Family Reports
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- S. Bessell, A. Bexley and C. Vuckovic (2021) The MOR for Children
Framework, Canberra: Children’s Policy Centre, The Australian National University. - The Life Course Centre, Understanding the links between women, violence and poverty, analysis for Anti-Poverty Week, August 2021.
- Anti-Poverty Week Child Poverty Fast Fact, 20/9/20
- The Smith Family reports on experience of lockdown and 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, , 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
- S. Bessell, A. Bexley and C. Vuckovic (2021) The MOR for Children
Poverty Data by State or Local Area
- 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)