The Importance of a National Definition of Poverty

I have a memory of Katie Gallagher when she was in opposition in Senate estimates, trying to hold the government's feet to the fire over defining poverty. I mean, it was another recommendation of their handpicked economic inclusion advisory committee that they should be a national definition of poverty. So they were happy to ignore the recommendations of the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee. That's the committee actually ended up with stronger recommendations than I thought it would be. But yeah, but they had some, you know, some academics on it who really, they know what people are going through. And they know the consequences and they know we've heard such good evidence from advocacy groups and academics as well,. You know,

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