| Description |
xxviii, 376 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Policies: past and present -- 2. Voices of poverty -- 3. Setting the poverty agenda: the origins and impact of the Henderson Report -- 4. Income poverty since the early 1970s -- 5. Poverty and the collapse of full employment -- 6. Poverty and the life cycle -- 7. The locations of poverty and disadvantage -- 8. Housing and poverty -- 9. Poverty and health -- 10. Poverty, education and training -- 11. Poverty and the law: what price citizenship? -- 12. Indigenous poverty -- 13. Immigrants and poverty -- 14. Poverty, gender and sole parenthood -- 15. The poverty of homelessness -- 16. Disability and poverty |
| Analysis |
Aborigines |
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Disabled |
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Federal issue |
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First generation migrants |
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Henderson report |
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Immigrants |
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Poverty |
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Poverty - Australia |
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Poverty - Social aspects - Australia |
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Social Security payments |
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Social conditions |
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Social security payments |
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Statistics |
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Trends to 1995 |
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Unemployment |
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Women |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-366) and index |
| Subject |
Poor -- Australia -- History.
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Poverty -- Australia -- History.
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Poverty -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Poverty -- Australia.
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| Author |
Fincher, Ruth.
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Nieuwenhuysen, J. P.
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| LC no. |
98218083 |
| ISBN |
052284829X |
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