Falling Behind examines the widening economic gap between generations and the growing challenges young Australians face in achieving financial security and building a stable future.
Cost of Living Index: Income Support, 2026
Anglicare Australia has released the Living Costs Index, an analysis which compares the incomes for three household types against essential living costs such as rent, food, and transport. This edition covers households on the income support payments.
Options Paper: Making Tax Reform Count
This paper explores alternative ways that revenue raised through reform could be used to strengthen Australia’s economic security and reduce financial stress. This paper outlines four possible options: investing in public and community housing, increasing the tax-free threshold, strengthening working-age income support payments, and addressing the growing problem of unpayable energy debt. Each option represents a different approach to improving economic security and ensuring that the benefits of tax reform flow to those who need them most.
Rebalancing Capital Gains Tax
Rebalancing Capital Gains Tax finds that the capital gains tax discount has helped turn housing into an investment game — benefiting people who already own property while locking others out of secure, affordable homes. The paper calls for reform of the capital gains tax discount, alongside changes to other housing tax settings, with revenue redirected into public and community housing. Taken together, these steps would help address inequality at its source, rebalance Australia’s housing system, and ensure that public resources are directed toward shared community benefit.
Last Resort, Not First Response: Protecting young people in our justice system
Locking up children does not make communities safer. Yet in much of Australia, children as young as ten can still be arrested, charged, and placed into detention systems that do little to improve their life chances.
Australia Fair Series – In Every Community
In Every Community draws on the experience of Anglicare Australia members delivering services across the country. It finds that people in regional and remote Australia are being left behind, with essential services stretched.
Cost of Living Index: Minimum Wage, 2025
Anglicare Australia has released the Cost of Living Index, an analysis which compares the incomes against essential living costs such as rent, food, and transport. This edition covers minimum wage households.
Paying it Forward
Anglicare Australia has launched a report showing that Australia’s tax system is fuelling wealth inequality.
Investing in People
Ahead of a crucial Federal Election, Anglicare Australia has laid out a plan for the next Federal Budget to tackle poverty by raising the rate of JobSeeker and other key payments.
Life on the Wait List
Life on the Wait List looks at how long older Australians are going without care and the barriers providers face in meeting their needs.