Let's cast off the shackles of inequality

By Mikayla Novak
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:12pm, first published November 1 2014 - 12:00am

A number of welfare advocacy groups, such as the Australian Council of Social Service, tell us that poverty in Australia is worsening, if we take the numbers of households earning half the median income (adjusted for household composition and housing costs) as the poverty benchmark.

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