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A new report looks at poverty and deprivation across the country since 2010. Disadvantage is becoming more entrenched and severe.
Bushfires disproportionately expose disadvantaged communities, and a one‑size‑fits‑all recovery can deepen those inequalities.
Campaigns designed to help us cut back on alcohol don’t always reach those most at risk of harm. Here’s what we should be doing instead.
Universal early childhood education and care could have profound benefits for areas like Western Sydney, where despite rising education levels, women still face higher unpaid care burdens and other barriers.
Stephanie Land’s sequel to her mega-successful debut memoir Maid works as hard as she does – but while its details of low-income single-parent life as a student are valuable, it suffers by comparison.
The transition to net zero emissions is under grave threat if governments do not do more to address the potential unfairness of some climate policies.
Children as young as ten don’t have access to Medicare if detained. And they’re dying of largely preventable diseases.
People in disadvantaged communities are less likely to access COVID antivirals. That needs to change.
The way Australia’s school system is structured is especially unfair on students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Extending visits from nurses who can listen without judgement and offer practical, evidence-informed advice helps new parents who are experiencing adversity.
The first interim report of the Commission’s five-yearly productivity inquiry glosses over inequity.
One 11-year old girl told us she knows once rent is paid, there is almost nothing left over. So she never takes school excursion notes home, in case the cost is too much.
The NSW state government has just announced a major overhaul of its selective school program. This aim is to make it fairer for children from disadvantaged backgrounds to secure a coveted spot.
Social factors influence how likely we are to suffer from many types of disease, including cancer.
What do disadvantaged communities need to weather long COVID? Ask them.
In parts of Australia that are already very hot, we show how climate change is driving inequities even further – in housing, energy security and health.
Our analysis revealed the relative attention our news and opinion pieces gave to First Nations peoples began to grow steadily from around 2005, with a huge peak in 2007.
Boosting income support payments beyond their current austere levels remains a crucial pillar of policy for governments genuinely committed to reducing persistent disadvantage.
The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of violent, dominating masculinity.
Top contributors
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Honorary Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Center for Community Child Health Royal Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Theme Director Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor, University of Sydney; RMIT University
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Sharon Bessell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Course Director in the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Adolescent Health The University of Melbourne; Director, Royal Children's Hospital Centre for Adolescent Health; and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor in Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Research Fellow in Health Policy, Mitchell Institute for Education and Health Policy, Victoria University
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Professor, Department of Economics & SoDa Laboratories, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Warumungu Elder and Director of the Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation, Tennant Creek, Indigenous Knowledge
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Suicide Prevention Australia Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, The University of Melbourne