PHOTO: It is estimated that between 700,000 and 1.3 million children live in poverty in Australia. Image: Pixabay
The head of Anti-Poverty Week has told a Senate Inquiry that the Government should be making clear, quantifiable commitments to reduce child poverty in Australia.
Toni Wren Executive Director, Anti-Poverty Week told Senators as part of the public hearings into the Extent and Nature of Poverty in Australia federal inquiry this month that We know from Foodbank Australia’s report and from Anti-Poverty Week that last year 1.3 million children in Australia lived in a household that was hungry.
With at least four communities on the western plains listed in the top ten of the most disadvantaged local government areas according to the SEIFA (Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas), child poverty is by no means a problem that happens ‘somewhere else’ and the push is on for change…