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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.
In 2018, it was reported that Australia’s full-time gender pay gap was 14.6% and women earnt on average A$244.80 per week less than men. [6] It was also reported that Western Australia had the highest pay gap by state and territory (22.4%), while the lowest pay gap was reported in Tasmania (9.7%). [6]
Russia accuses Australia of inciting "anti-Russian paranoia" after Australia charged a Russian-born Australian couple with espionage. [440] The remains of Matthew Flinders, the first person to circumnavigate Australia were buried at Donington, Lincolnshire after they were discovered in 2019 during excavation work at London's Euston railway station.
Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway, spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.
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 ...
It is announced that media agencies will begin trading Virtual Australia (VOZ) data on 29 December 2024. [191] 27: The Nine Network airs the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, highlighted by a performance of Hymne à l'amour by Celine Dion. The ceremony (including the replay) is watched by an average of 6.8 million viewers. [192] [193]
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.
Australia has a long-standing association with the protection and creation of women's rights. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote (after New Zealand in 1893) and the first to give women the right to be elected to a national parliament. [1]