Australia could be the first nation in the world to eliminate poverty
July 7, 2024
The Australia Institute has recently argued for the introduction of a system for measuring the extent of poverty in Australia, pointing out that the government’s recently established wellbeing measurement framework, Measuring What Matters, does not measure the number of Australians living in poverty. Greg Jericho and the other researchers at the Institute have argued that the Albanese government should revive the commitment of the Hawke-Keating government that no child will live in poverty and they’ve suggested that elimination of poverty is a worthy ambition that “starts with measuring it properly”.
