%T Poverty and affluence in Sydney and Melbourne
%A Ian Manning



%I 10th State of Australasian Cities National Conference, 1-3 December 2021, Melbourne, Australia
%D 2022

%K Economics, %K Poverty, %K Economic indicators, %K Social inequality, %K Neo-liberalism



%U https://apo.org.au/node/317791

%X It is arguable that the neoliberal macroeconomic policies pursued in Australia from 1994 to 2019 exacerbated social segregation at regional scale and that this contributed to the increase in economic inequality. To assess this argument, social segregation is mapped for Sydney and Melbourne (each divided into nine regions), with poor and affluent households defined as those in the bottom and top deciles of national equivalised income. At the 2016 Census the incidence of poverty in Metropolitan Sydney was slightly less than in Melbourne and the incidence of affluence considerably greater.
%9 Conference paper