Inequality
12 stories, 102 sources cited
Australia's official income and wealth survey has been dark since 2019-20
The last published Australian survey of income and wealth covers 2019-20. The 2023-24 collection, taken from about 30,000 households, was scrapped on
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Pakistan's first household survey since 2019 pushed a regional poverty rate from 11.8 to 14.4 per cent
The World Bank's 26 March 2026 data update raised its 2024 extreme poverty estimate from 839 million to 847 million people. Most of the movement sits
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Australia's housing council reports record rent burden of 33.1 per cent of median income
The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council's State of the Housing System 2026, released 30 April 2026, puts a new lease at 33.1 per cent of
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Treasury delays action on wealthy tax audit as rich share of UK tax gap rises to 6%
The Public Accounts Committee reported on 16 July 2025 that HMRC recovered £5.2 billion from wealthy taxpayers, up from £2.2 billion in 2019-20. On 4
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Indigenous suicide rate rose to 33.9 per 100,000 in 2024, Closing the Gap data shows
The Productivity Commission's 29 July 2026 data compilation finds four of 19 targets worsening, including suicide, up from 23.6 per 100,000 in 2018. T
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Analysis of Australia's 2026 NAPLAN data puts the Year 9 numeracy gap at seven years and nine months
ACARA's 2026 NAPLAN results, released on 5 August, put 66.3 per cent of students at Strong or Exceeding in reading, down from 68.2 per cent in 2025. I
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Victoria accepts 28 of 34 regional housing recommendations, and puts the costly ones under review
The Victorian Government's response to the regional housing inquiry, dated May 2026, supports six recommendations in full, seven in part and 15 in pri
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Britain scrapped the two child limit on 6 April, and the benefit cap kept 41,000 families out
The rule fell after nine years. Figures published on 8 July show 495,990 households and 1,752,200 children were still caught by it in April 2026. Of 4
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First Nations adults jailed at 16.8 times the non-Indigenous rate, Productivity Commission reports
The sixth Closing the Gap data report, released 29 July 2026, puts the age-standardised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment rate at 2,5
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Women reach 67 with £105,000 in pension savings, men with £232,000, UK figures show
Mercer, now:pensions and the Pensions Policy Institute put a woman's savings at 67 at £105,000 against a man's £232,000, a gap of £127,000. Official D
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Ombudsman logs 27,882 country telco complaints and asks for a root and branch law review
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman's report of 13 August 2026 draws on 27,882 complaints from outside the major cities over two financial years
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Australia swapped its inflation benchmark for one with 18 months of history
On 26 November 2025 the complete monthly CPI replaced the quarterly series as Australia's headline inflation measure and the Reserve Bank's target var
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