Are pensioners really impoverished?

Confusing the average median income with the poverty line is sloppy statistics.

Jobless families need work

An economic downturn should be no excuse to lose the ground we have already won in reducing the number of jobless Australian families.

Despite Australia coming off the back of a remarkable economic boom and enjoying historically low unemployment rates, in late 2008 almost one in eight Australian children lived in a family where no parent worked. Unbelievably, this figure is actually a marked improvement: family joblessness reached its peak in the mid 1990s when more than one in six children lived in jobless households.