The Individual Deprivation Measure offers policymakers a chance to truly understand the multi-dimensionality of poverty, providing insights into deprivation’s unique characteristics at different stages in life, Angie Bexley and Mandy Yap write.

The link between homelessness and poverty is well known, but evidence of its relationship over time is only just emerging. As it is deeply entrenched in disadvantage and housing insecurity, responses to homelessness must be re-thought and scaled-up, James O’Donnell writes.

Poverty is a chronic lack of access to resources, but one of the most valuable and irreplaceable of those resources is a person’s time, Lyndall Strazdins and Amelia Yazidjoglou write.

New research reveals that many young Australians are living without basic items that they value. A child-focused framework that acknowledges young people’s agency is a way forward on poverty, Anne Hampshire writes.   

Poverty is perhaps the world’s largest policy issue, affecting billions of people every day. For Anti-Poverty Week 2019, we’re focusing on what policymakers can do about it. Getting us underway, Sharon Bessell outlines poverty’s different aspects, linking a better understanding of poverty to the potential for greater action.