Alipriya Biswas was so short of money when she began studying in Australia, she lived on rice and tinned tuna for a year. When the 21-year-old journalism student moved from India to Melbourne, she had ...

One in seven Australians now lives below the poverty line. That’s 3.7 million people struggling to pay for food, power, and rent in a nation bursting with resources. It’s the great Australian ...

The national economy is tipped to pick up over the next 12 months, growing by 2 per cent in the 2025-2026 financial year before lifting moderately to 2.2 per cent in 2026-2027. A new Deloitte report ...

The Poverty in Australia 2025 Overview report conducted by the Australian Council of Social Services and the University of NSW revealed that one in seven Australians were living in poverty in 2022-23.