The data show wealth inequality has grown but is lower now than before the GFC. And overall household income inequality has barely shifted since the start of this century.

What income inequality looks like across Australia Published: July 5, 2017 4:09pm EDT. Nicholas Biddle, Francis Markham, Australian National University. Authors. Nicholas Biddle ...

The snapshot report on income inequality published by the Productivity Commission this week provides some significant information on the effect of policy decisions by the Labor government to ...

While attention is often focused on high-income earners, Eslake says small businesses are believed to be the worst offenders ...

In 2022, the Gini coefficient, a key measure of income inequality, rose to 0.32, the first time the figure has risen above ...

An Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) report has revealed that income inequality in Australia is higher than the average in the 34 OECD industrialised countries. In fact, the rate of ...

Trends in income inequality (Gini coefficient) in Australia, 1981–82 to 2011-12. Author The ABS points out that changes from year to year are sometimes not large enough to be statistically ...

"In terms of income inequality in Australia, we haven't seen a lot of change over the past, say 10 or 15 or so years," Australian National University associate professor Ben Phillips says.

“On this measure, inequality levels are as high as they have been since 1950, in the aftermath of World War II,” the report notes. The paper says Australia’s income inequality has remained ...

Yet based on statistical measures of income inequality, Australia has not been this consistently unequal since the 1930s, and is now more unequal than most of the countries in the OECD, ...

As Brendan Coates of the Grattan Institute recently explained in his excellent speech on housing, “The Great Australian Nightmare“, while income inequality in Australia hasn’t been growing ...