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  2. Poverty in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australia ranks very high on these global indexes. A relative poverty line was calculated in Australia for the Henderson poverty inquiry in 1973. It was $62.70 a week, which was the disposable income required to support the basic needs of a family of two adults and two dependent children at the time.

  3. List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development ...

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    This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...

  4. List of countries by income inequality - Wikipedia

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    List of countries by income inequality based on Pre-tax national income share held by top 10% of the population, Income Decile 1 and Interdecile P90/P10; Country/Territory UN Region World Bank Income group (2024) Pre-tax national income Top 10% share [a] Income Decile 1 [b] Interdecile P90/P10 [c] World Inequality Database [9] Year UNU-WIDER [3 ...

  5. World Inequality Database - Wikipedia

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    World Inequality Report is a report by the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics that provides estimates of global income and wealth inequality based on the most recent findings compiled by the World Inequality Database (WID). WID, also referred to as WID.world, is an open source database, that is part of an international ...

  6. Close the Gap - Wikipedia

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    Close the Gap (CTG) is a social justice campaign focused on Indigenous Australians' health, in which peak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous health bodies, NGOs and human rights organisations work together to achieve health equality in Australia. The Campaign was launched in April 2007.

  7. 2024 in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Two 16-year-old boys are charged with murder following the death of a 33-year-old doctor in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster after an alleged aggravate burglary on 13 January 2024. [ 49 ] 19 January – Queensland premier Steven Miles officially announces a state parliamentary inquiry into grocery prices at the major supermarkets after meeting ...

  8. Income distribution - Wikipedia

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    The concept of inequality is distinct from that of poverty [5] and fairness. Income inequality metrics (or income distribution metrics) are used by social scientists to measure the distribution of income, and economic inequality among the participants in a particular economy, such as that of a specific country or of the world in general.

  9. Human rights in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Human rights in Australia have largely been developed by the democratically elected Australian Parliament through laws in specific contexts (rather than a stand-alone, abstract bill of rights) and safeguarded by such institutions as the independent judiciary and the High Court, which implement common law, the Australian Constitution, and various other laws of Australia and its states and ...