1. POVERTY IN AUSTRALIA--THE EVIDENCE.
- Author
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Brown, R. G.
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POVERTY ,COST of living ,ELDERLY poor ,INCOME ,SOCIETIES - Abstract
The purpose of this article is to consider the sources of evidence about people in need in Australia and to see what hypotheses may be deduced from them about the nature and extent of need. In Australia, as in these other affluent and technologically advanced societies, relative to average living standards need is likely to be experienced by old people, by the permanently disabled and the chronically ill, by women who have lost the support of their husbands, by families whose income has been intermittently but persistently interrupted, and by large families on low incomes. Little is known about the standard of living of the permanently incapacitated, particularly those with no property and little income except the pension, and with rent to pay or with particularly difficult problems in caring for themselves. It maybe reasonably accepted that there is a problem of relative poverty in Australia. The most difficult problem is that of ordinary families on low incomes whose present standard of living is too low for them to provide from it for even a minimum standard in the contingencies of the future. The article further provides an appendix regarding a preliminary estimate of the incidence of need in Australia.
- Published
- 1964
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