A survey conducted by Anglicare Australia and Ipsos found 86 per cent of respondents believe nobody deserves to live in poverty. Seven nine per cent also agreed anybody can end up in poverty ...

By any measure of moral progress, a society should be judged by how it treats those who are most vulnerable. Yet in Australia, people with disabilities continue to be treated not as citizens with ...

According to the Australia Institute, one in five Aussies are retiring into poverty, with this number only likely to rise in the coming years. Australia Institute chief economist Greg Jericho said ...

A father who broke down on national TV over his family's dire housing situation has on Thursday set up camp outside Prime ...

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That's what upsets me." Lyn, who asked for her surname not to be used, is one of thousands of older Australians who pay rent but live in poverty. The situation is getting worse, with a new report ...

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The policies proposed by the parliamentary parties will do nothing to address the acute and worsening shortage of affordable ...

As deputy chief executive officer (research) at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), Thomson has seen the long-term effects of childhood poverty in her own studies. Now the ...

Australia is a low tax nation, and this has left Australians with higher rates of poverty, poorer services and crumbling ...

But payment levels remain below the poverty line. That's according to Australia's Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee's 2025 report , released this week a fortnight ahead of the federal budget ...