Australia is terrible at measuring poverty. In fact, the country can’t even agree on what poverty is. Is it just about how much you get paid? What if you own your own home? What if you have access to almost everything you need, but you just don’t have a lot of cash?
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In Australia, the standards we use to measure poverty can vary wildly from organisation to organisation — sometimes even between government departments — meaning everyone’s working off different numbers. Guardian Australia inequality reporter Stephanie Convery explains why It’s an Australian problem that other countries around the world have already managed to solve.
Australia has a poverty problem – so why is there no agreed measure of it? ► https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/23/australia-has-a-poverty-problem-so-why-is-there-no-agreed-measure-of-it
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