This research investigates the key links between housing and poverty. Its purpose is to draw together different dimensions of the relationships between housing costs and poverty, including policy settings, tax and transfer systems, housing assistance and place-based dimensions and individual capabilities.

Australia’s welfare 2023 presents a summary of welfare and wellbeing data in Australia with key findings on housing, education and skills, employment and income, social support, and justice and safety.

The research behind this report finds that the upcoming increase to welfare payment rates in Australia will not be enough to prevent economic distress for a large number of welfare recipients.

This paper uses data from the August 2023 ANUpoll, as well as previous waves of data collection, to analyse financial wellbeing in Australia, and how it has changed since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With almost a third of households in Australia now renting, a spotlight has been thrown upon the poor conditions in many parts of the national rental market. This paper seeks to shed some light on a heated debate. It examines the data to establish if there is, indeed, a rental crisis in Australia, and surveys...