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:

Some fact sheets

  • Measures of Australia's Progress: Summary Indicators
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (2009) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Poverty Line Update
    Brotherhood of St Laurence (August 2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Social Barometer - The Working Years
    Brotherhood of St Laurence (October 2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • A Fair Australia
    The Australian Collaboration (May 2008) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Poverty Overview - Indigenous Health
    Fred Hollows Foundation (2008) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Homeless Young Australians Snapshot
    Mission Australia (August 2007) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Changes to family payments will increase child poverty
    Australian Council of Social Services (June 2009) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Poverty and its causes
    Australian Collaboration (May 2008) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Health lies in wealth - Health inequalities in Australians of working age
    Catholic Health Australia / NATSEM (2010) (DOWNLOAD)

Some recent reports and papers

Poverty Report
Australian Council Of Social Services (2011) (DOWNLOAD)

Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration Inquiry into the migration treatment of people with a disability
Australian Council of Social Services (2010) (DOWNLOAD)

Families on the Fringe
Mission Australia (2009) (DOWNLOAD)

Appalling situation for Indigenous children can be solved
Queensland Council of Social Services (2010) (DOWNLOAD)

The costs of disability and the incidence of poverty
Peter Saunders, Social Policy Research Centre (2006) (DOWNLOAD)
Barriers to hiring disadvantaged or vulnerable workers: Victorian employers' attitudes survey
Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Brotherhood of St Laurence (2009) (DOWNLOAD)

Helpful websites

Global Poverty

Some recent fact sheets

  • Global poverty
    United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services (2008) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Global poverty fact sheet
    Australian Council for International Development (2008) (DOWNLOAD)
  • Poverty facts and stats
    Global Issues. (DOWNLOAD)

Some recent reports and papers

Millennium Development Goals Report 2009
United Nations (DOWNLOAD)

Human Development Report 2010
United Nations Development Programme (DOWNLOAD)

Helpful websites - International sources

Helpful websites - Australian sources

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