More than 1.4 million people receive JobSeeker, Youth Allowance, Austudy, Parenting Payment and related income support payments. This report finds these payments are inadequate to cover the cost of food, housing, transport, and healthcare; which forces recipients into a life of poverty and deprivation.

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...

This report finds that rooftop solar, electrification and thermal efficiency upgrades for 1.2 million homes over seven years would generate construction, indirect employment and household bill savings of up to $17 billion in gross domestic product over the lives of the upgrades.

The Australian Council of Social Service has worked with the community sector, climate movement, unions, researchers, and people with lived experience of disadvantage to develop this framework for climate change action. The framework aims to guide federal government climate change policy to ensure that, as well as reducing greenhouse emissions, it supports people and communities...

This report examines the latest available data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (for 2019-20, adjusting forward to 2022-23 for wealth) to identify who stands where on the income and wealth ladders and the main causes of income and wealth inequality.