on 05-09-2014 10:49 AM
http://www.acoss.org.au/policy/poverty/
Poverty
ACOSS has a strong policy focus on poverty and inequality in Australia.
We are issuing a series of poverty and inequality reports, the first of which is the Poverty in Australia 2013 edition.
This report found that there are approximately 2,265,000 people, or 12.8% of all people in Australia who are living below the OECD poverty line of 50% of median wage.
The report also found that there were some groups particularly at risk, including: people without paid work, children (especially in sole parent families), and people whose main source of income is social security payments.
The poverty report found that
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I wonder what the percentage is in 2014?
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on 05-09-2014 03:55 PM
Paints, it's going to get worse at an alarming rate, especially if/when PUP rolls over again.
on 05-09-2014 03:56 PM
Whatever the percentage ... it's a shame and a disgrace that so many people are living below the poverty line ... and that more people are being added every day.
on 05-09-2014 04:54 PM
@village_person wrote:Why are we giving foreign aid to mendicant countries when we have our own needy in Australia?
wouldn't worry too much about that, foreign aid has been slashed before the budget - didn't mean anything to the people that need it in Australia - the budget intends to take more off our "own". Seems our humanitarianism only applies to war. One of the richest nations on earth, we won't help others and we won't help our "own".
05-09-2014 05:57 PM - edited 05-09-2014 06:00 PM
@village_person wrote:Why are we giving foreign aid to mendicant countries when we have our own needy in Australia?
Australian foreign aid spending is being cut by $7.6 billion over the next five years, in the biggest savings measure in the 2014 budget.
That doesn't mean that amount of 'saved' money will ever find its way to the needy in Australia either.
Just as likely to be spent on a jet fighters or bomb proof BMW's ordered by Abbott.
The current Govt tells people (including those on low incomes) to tighten their belts.
on 05-09-2014 03:52 PM
Why are we giving foreign aid to mendicant countries when we have our own needy in Australia?
on 05-09-2014 03:55 PM
Paints, it's going to get worse at an alarming rate, especially if/when PUP rolls over again.
on 05-09-2014 03:56 PM
Whatever the percentage ... it's a shame and a disgrace that so many people are living below the poverty line ... and that more people are being added every day.
on 05-09-2014 04:54 PM
@village_person wrote:Why are we giving foreign aid to mendicant countries when we have our own needy in Australia?
wouldn't worry too much about that, foreign aid has been slashed before the budget - didn't mean anything to the people that need it in Australia - the budget intends to take more off our "own". Seems our humanitarianism only applies to war. One of the richest nations on earth, we won't help others and we won't help our "own".
05-09-2014 05:57 PM - edited 05-09-2014 06:00 PM
@village_person wrote:Why are we giving foreign aid to mendicant countries when we have our own needy in Australia?
Australian foreign aid spending is being cut by $7.6 billion over the next five years, in the biggest savings measure in the 2014 budget.
That doesn't mean that amount of 'saved' money will ever find its way to the needy in Australia either.
Just as likely to be spent on a jet fighters or bomb proof BMW's ordered by Abbott.
The current Govt tells people (including those on low incomes) to tighten their belts.
on 05-09-2014 07:15 PM
@am*3 wrote:Australian foreign aid spending is being cut by $7.6 billion over the next five years, in the biggest savings measure in the 2014 budget.
What did those mendicant countries do before the advent of foreign aid? How did the inhabitants manage before the arrival of the cargo cult mentality?
on 05-09-2014 07:24 PM
I would rather stick to the topic of this thread... the poor in Australia.
on 05-09-2014 07:51 PM
yes am3, thank you. I would prefer to stick with topic too:) Not that I don't have feelings for overseas poor but we should look after our own poor at home in Australia first.....plus this is the thread topic. Cheers
Now ....what is the definition of 'poor'?.....................
synonyms: | poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need/want, badly off, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless;More on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name); informalbroke, flat broke, cleaned out, strapped for cash, strapped, on one's uppers, without two pennies/(brass) farthings to rub together; informalstone broke; rarepauperized, beggared "a poor family" |
on 05-09-2014 07:54 PM
@village_person wrote:
@am*3 wrote:Australian foreign aid spending is being cut by $7.6 billion over the next five years, in the biggest savings measure in the 2014 budget.
What did those mendicant countries do before the advent of foreign aid? How did the inhabitants manage before the arrival of the cargo cult mentality?
very offensive language to describe people and countries who are in need of others help, so I won't bother responding to the "question" itself.