a key measure of income inequality, rose to 0.32, the first time the figure has risen above 0.31 since 2001, according to the ...

The snapshot report on income inequality published by the Productivity ... the “significant increases in support payments from the Australian government.” The government of the day, under ...

and two steps back when the increased payments were withdrawn and income inequality returned to close to pre-pandemic levels." Use this calculator to see where people rank in the Australian income ...

"The Wealth Inequality Pandemic ... annual disposable income as "over-indebted" and nearly a third of Australia's low-income households are currently in this position. This is the fourth and ...

One of Australia's top social and economic researchers is less concerned by "income inequality" — the gap between what people earn and how it's shared — as "wealth inequality", one group ...

A particularly important contributor to increasing wealth inequality across age groups has been the decline in home ownership rates among younger households. Australia’s home ownership rate declined ...

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 ...

We’re also entrenching inequality on wages growth. As a Reserve Bank paper from 2019 showed, the great wage stagnation of the Coalition years disproportionately hit lower-income earners.

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Forty per cent of Australia’s historically high economic inequality can be linked to the key factors of age, education ...

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 ...