Interim report

REPORT - May 2023

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List of recommendations

Poverty in Australia today
Focus of this interim report

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Referral and conduct of the inquiry
Structure of the interim report
Acknowledgments

Chapter 2 - The extent of poverty in Australia

Measuring and defining poverty
Estimates of the extent of poverty in Australia
Evidence supporting a national definition or measure of poverty
Committee view

Chapter 3 - The human impact of poverty

The overarching and intersecting impacts of poverty
Shelter
Health
Economic participation
Social participation
Committee view

Chapter 4 - The structural drivers of poverty

Committee view

Chapter 5 - The relationship between income support payments and poverty

Australia’s social security system
Australia’s income support payments
Submissions identifying income support payments as a structural driver of poverty in Australia
Calls to raise income support payments
Committee view

Executive summary
Testimony from people with direct experience of poverty
Poverty in Australia
Raise the rate and establish a poverty line
What happened to the light on the hill?

Additional Comments from Coalition Senators

Current developments

Appendix 1 - Submissions and additional information received

Appendix 2 - Public Hearings

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