Resources

In this section you can find a number of resources about poverty and related issues in Australia and globally. They include a selection of:

  • recent fact sheets
  • recent reports and papers
  • helpful websites

The material is the responsibility of the authors, not of Anti-Poverty Week itself.

Poverty in Australia:

Recent fact sheets
  • Update on those missing out
    Australia Fair (October 2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Measures of Australia's Progress at a Glance
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Poverty Line Update
    Brotherhood of St Laurence (August 2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Social Barometer - The Working Years
     Brotherhood of St Laurence (October 2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Education Foundation Australia
     How equitable are our schools? (January 2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Poverty Overview - Indigenous Health
    Fred Hollows Foundation (DOWNLOAD)
  • Homeless Young Australians Snapshot
     Mission Australia (August 2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Left out and missing Out: Voices from the margins
     Social Policy Research Centre and others (2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • A Fair Australia
    The Australian Collaboration (July 2007) (DOWNLOAD)

Recent reports and papers

Suburban scars: Australian cities and socio-economic deprivation (DOWNLOAD)
Scott Baum / Urban Research Program, Griffith University, pinpointing hot-spots of Australia's escalating rich-poor divide and identifying those suburbs left behind by Australia's economic boom (2008)

Life chances at 16: Life chances study stage 8 (DOWNLOAD)
Janet Taylor and Lucy Nelms / Brotherhood of St Laurence, exploring the situations of 125 young Australians from diverse backgrounds, their current engagement with school and work and their future plans at the age of 16 (2008)

Towards New Indicators of Social Disadvantage: Deprivation and Social Exclusion in Australia (DOWNLOAD)
Peter Saunders, Yuvisthi Naidoo and Megan Griffiths / Social Policy Research Centre, addressing the broader issues of poverty, rather than just income, to connect with the actual living standards experienced by those in poverty (2007)

A Fair Go For All Australians: International Comparisons (DOWNLOAD)
Australia Fair, comparing Australia's economic performance with that of other OECD nations, outlining the latest research on the number of Australians living below poverty lines and identifying where Australia is falling behind other nations in realising a fair go for all of its people (2007).

Helpful websites

Global Poverty

Recent fact sheets
  • Millennium Goals Report 2007 (DOWNLOAD)
  • Global poverty fact sheet 2006
    United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services Global poverty fact sheet (DOWNLOAD)
  • Poverty facts and stats (DOWNLOAD)

Recent reports and papers

  • United Nations Human Development Report 2007 (DOWNLOAD)

Helpful websites - International sources

Helpful websites - Australian sources

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