Published: April 15, 2019
Inequality data may suggest an improvement but the reality is life is still brutally hard for those in the bottom 10%
Too often the political and economic debate in this country treats inequality and poverty as synonymous, rather than realising most of the inequality discussion has its eyes set on the middle.
Think “working Australians”, “middle Australia”, the “average household”, and reports on interest rate changes that are written with an assumption that most people either have a mortgage or one day will. We talk of wages growth with the assumption that the growth is more important than the actual size of the wages. We debate electric vehicles assuming buying a car is something most of us can afford to do.
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