Anglicare Australia will often advocate for those who utilise our member services through activities and publications which don’t quite fall into our core advocacy strategies.
This report analyses financial hardship in Australia using a number of quantitative measures including deprivation, financial stress, expenditure analysis and poverty analysis. The report takes a special interest in households where the main source of income is derived from either the Newstart Allowance (NSA) or the job seeker Youth Allowance (YA). These are the two main payments received by unemployed persons in Australia. The report has been prepared for the Major Church Providers. Document: Download2012
Going Without: Financial Hardship in Australia
This report provides an analysis of financial hardship in Australia through a number of lenses. Poverty measures are constructed to consider the extent of resource constrained households through the perspective of the OECD half-median income measure. To add extra dimensions to the financial hardship measures we add the more direct measures of deprivation and financial stress and provide a detailed analysis of the expenditure patterns within households. Such measures are considered for different household types and government beneficiary households.
This report was a collaboration of Catholic Social Services Australia, Unitingcare Australia, the Salvation Army and Anglicare Australia. It looks at the employment opportunities available for people living with a disability and was tabled at a Senate Hearing into the changes to the Disability Impairment Tables.
Download: What if employers say no?
