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Jay Coonan

Co-coordinator of the Antipoverty Centre, an Australian welfare advocacy collective, researching social policy, social security and employment services.

Oct 14, 2026

PriyaHOST
78:50
Now, what would this look like in practice? And how does it compare to the sort of proxy indicators that we currently have for poverty in Australia?
79:01
Yeah, I mean, a poverty measurement is quite an interesting thing.
79:09
If you, like, yeah, I mean, we're focusing on individuals who have no, ultimately, no control over their lives, and we're asking them to be better.
79:21
And a poverty measurement is just focusing back on those individuals.
79:26
Like, the thing about a poverty measurement is, like, why don't we focus on wealth measurement.
79:32
We live in an incredibly wealthy country.
79:36
We live around billionaires and millionaires.
PriyaHOST
84:04
Now, just to wrap up, on a hopeful note, what are some useful actions that our listeners can take to lend their support to this fight to really not just re-politicize, but center the question of poverty in Australia in their political actions?

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