New Data Reveals 83% of Australians Demand Action on Child Poverty—Will the Government Listen?

• Four in five Australians (83%) want the Federal Government to regularly measure and report on poverty rates in Australia.

• An overwhelming majority of Australians (81%) agree that income support payments should be set at a rate that does not cause any child to live in poverty.

• Australians are highly concerned that Australia has a high child poverty rate compared to other developed countries (69%), and about the effects of this on health and lifespan (83%) as well as education and employment (85%).

• One in six Australian children (about 761,000 children) live in poverty according to research from ACOSS and UNSW.

• The OECD finds that Australia’s youth poverty rate is the 13th-highest among member nations, surpassing the UK, Germany and Canada.

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