I think the mighty ALP is doing its share to keep people in poverty:
600,000 Australian children in poverty, 18,000 kids homeless
ACOSS CEO, Dr Cassandra Goldie, said that their updated poverty report has found that 17.3 per cent of Australia’s children are living in poverty – nearly 600,000 children. Since the beginning of this century, this is a 1.5 per cent rise in the number of Australian children living in poverty. ACOSS and UNICEF Australia are urging both parliamentary houses to not delay in developing a plan, and to do so in consultation with private and community organisations expert in the field.
https://indymedia.org.au/2013/11/23/600000-australian-children-in-poverty-18000-kids-homeless?page=2
As I strain to listen to a message being carried in by the wind I am not impressed:
"We set ourselves this first goal: by 1990 no Australian child will be living in poverty," Mr Hawke said on June 23, 1987 at an election campaign launch.
