The snapshot tracks Australia’s private rental market, surveying around 49,000 rental listings nationwide. It measures whether Australians on low incomes can afford to rent a home on the private market. This year's snapshot shows people on the lowest incomes have no access to the private rental market.

This report examines affordability of rental properties for Australians who earn the lowest incomes, people on Commonwealth income support and minimum wage earners. Surveying the rental market for sixteen essential occupations, the report determines how many rental listings they could afford. It finds affordability was worst for early childhood educators, hospitality workers and meat packers.

Australians on the lowest incomes are struggling to pay the rent in electorates across the country. This snapshot surveyed 51,238 rental listings across Australia. The report argues that choices made by governments over the last 40 years have entrenched inequality in Australia’s private rental market.

This report shows how prolonged wait times for home care have an extensive impact on all areas of the community. In surveying aged care providers across the country, it has found that none are able to meet demand within their own communities, and that funding constraints are the key cause of this shortfall.

This report looks at trends in wealth inequality over the past twenty years and finds that: the wealthiest Australians hold 90 times the wealth of those with the least; this has been fuelled by tax breaks for superannuation and housing investments, and high house prices have fuelled inequality and locked many people out of housing...