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Understanding Life on Low Income in WA Part One
Report. Living Realities
WACOSS/Murdoch University
2025
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title
- Understanding Life on Low Income in WA Part One
- Authors/Creators
- Sophie Hantz - WACOSSEmily Hull - WACOSSOlabisi Imonitie - Murdoch University, School of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesJoe Moran - Murdoch University, School of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesKylie Hosking - Murdoch University, College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication Details
- Report. Living Realities
- Publisher
- WACOSS/Murdoch University
- Identifiers
- 991005909768407891
- Copyright
- © Western Australian Council of Social Service, 2025
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report
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