Calls for Australia to implement poverty line to measure number of people struggling to make ends meet from larka end larka Watch Video

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With no end in sight to the cost-of-living crisis, there is a push for Australia to change the way it thinks about poverty, including allowing the government to set and measure an official poverty line. Social services say Australia should follow in New Zealand’s footsteps, by recognising the effects of poverty on children and passing legislation to measure, and eventually resolve the problem.