Useful Resources
APW Guides and Briefing
- 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
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) - Together Creating Pathways Out of Poverty
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
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)
Major Reports
- 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
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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- Covid, inequality and poverty in 2020 & 2021, ACOSS/UNSW Sydney Poverty and Inequality Partnership, 2/3/22.
- 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
Poverty Data by State or Local Area
- 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)