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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Australia has made progress in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy since the late 2010s, according to new ...

Grattan Institute Senior Associate Joey Moloney says housing is a “major driver” of income and wealth inequality in Australia. “When you look at income inequality and how its changed over ...

ECONOMIC inequality in Australia has climbed to the highest level in more than 20 years, ... In 2022, the Gini coefficient, a key measure of income inequality, rose to 0.32, the first time the figure ...