Poverty

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Official reports 2012 have highlighted that there are more than 2.26 million Australians who are actually living in poverty! Unfortunately, above 575, 000 children were among the 2,265,000 victims of poverty! In addition to this, more women are said to be in poverty than men. Statistics have shown that New South Wales has the highest number of people in poverty with 835,000, followed by Victoria - 526,700, Queensland - 430,900, Western Australia - 211,300, South Australia - 165,200 and Tasmania - 56,0003. The Australian Council of Social Service have underlined that since 2003, the number of poverty cases have incredibly increased by one-third of each 1%. In-depth research have revealed that there is a higher level of need outside the capital of Australia yet, the services, support and aid available are too scarce! Besides, sociologists have advanced that the cost of life within regional areas is far more expensive and challenging than the other parts of Australia like Melbourne...