The Canberra Times Court & Crime
Thirty-five years after an Australian prime minister predicted no Australian child would be living in poverty, one in six are.
That's according to a new report by the Australian Council of Social Services and the University of NSW released for the start of Anti-Poverty week.
It found 3.7 million people, or 14.2 per cent of the population, were living in poverty in the years 2022-23, equating to one in seven Australians. That includes 757,000, or one in six, children.
"This is unacceptable in one of the wealthiest countries in the world," said Dr Yuvisthi Naidoo from UNSW's Social Policy Research Centre.
The report shows poverty has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic, when the JobSeeker rate was temporarily doubled.
About one in eight Australians were poverty-stricken in 2020-21, or
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