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Understanding Life on Low Income in WA Part Three: Themes from Participants
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Understanding Life on Low Income in WA Part Three: Themes from Participants

Joe Moran, Sophie Hantz, Kylie Hosking, Olabisi Imonitie and Rose Newbury Freeman
Report. Living Realities
WACOSS/Murdoch University
2025
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Abstract

Low income/financial hardship/family support/pride/ambition
Over the past four years, ‘Cost of Living’ has been on everybody’s mind. While it seems like all Australians are feeling the crunch or making financial adjustments, the true and differential impacts of sustained high costs often don’t make it into public narrative and are largely excluded from government response. The reality is, while many Australians have experienced some disruption, those on the lowest incomes have been pushed even further into hardship and face a cycle of cruel and relentless poverty. WACOSS and Murdoch University have worked with eight people living on low income to produce individual narratives of their experiences on low income. In these case studies we want the reader to see each person’s narrative intact, to picture their lives on low income as presented by them at this moment in time. This research project consists of three reports. The first two reports (Parts One and Two) focus wholly on sharing the experiences of the lived experience advocates who participated in the project, while the final report (Part Three) will analyse common themes, challenges and possible solutions identified throughout this work.

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