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VIDEO: Calls for Australia to introduce poverty line to assess cost-of-living crisis
VIDEO: Calls for Australia to introduce poverty line to assess cost-of-living crisis
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Call for Australia to commit to poverty line Presented by Keane Bourke
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New Data Reveals 83% of Australians Demand Action on Child Poverty—Will the Government Listen?
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Australians Back Action to Track and Address Child Poverty
• Four in five Australians (83%) want the Federal Government to regularly measure and report on poverty rates in Australia.
• An overwhelming majority of Australians (81%) agree that income support payments should be set at a rate that does not cause any child to live in poverty.
• Australians are highly concerned that Australia has a high child poverty rate compared to other developed countries (69%), and about the effects of this on health and lifespan (83%) as well as education and employment (85%).
• One in six Australian children (about 761,000 children) live in poverty according to research from ACOSS and UNSW.
• The OECD finds that Australia’s youth poverty rate is the 13th-highest among member nations, surpassing the UK, Germany and Canada.
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