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August 14, 2025

Many parents – mostly mothers – lose family payments from the first dollar they earn. Here’s how we could fix it

Ana Gamarra Rondinel, The University of Melbourne; Guyonne Kalb, The University of Melbourne, and Miranda Stewart, The University of Melbourne

More than 1.2 million families rely on these payments, worth $20 billion – yet some unfairly miss out.

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June 8, 2022

Women’s probability of being in poverty more than doubles after separation

Guyonne Kalb, The University of Melbourne and Barbara Broadway, The University of Melbourne

Our new research suggests that while a break up, on average, reduces men’s disposable household income by 5%, on average women’s household income decreases by almost 30%.

The incidence of poverty among people over 65 is decreasing in part because of increased labour force participation. Col Ford and Natasha de Vere/Flickr

December 11, 2017

Older people now less likely to fall into poverty

Guyonne Kalb, The University of Melbourne

There has been a substantial improvement compared to 15 years ago, when the incidence of poverty among the elderly was 32.4%.

Simon Birmingham said the Turnbull government has ‘already had great success in terms of reducing the rate of price growth’. AAP/Alex Murray

January 18, 2017

FactCheck: what are the facts on rising child care prices?

Ben Phillips, Australian National University

The education minister says that under Labor there were child care price spikes of up to 14% over a 12 month period, but under the Coalition those have fallen to “around 6% on average”. Is that right?

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