Down and Out: Poverty and exclusion in Australia
- Posted: 1st May 2011
Book Launch
Down and Out
Poverty and exclusion in Australia
By Peter Saunders
Written by one of Australia’s leading poverty researchers, Down and Out: Poverty and Exclusion in Australia provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage in Australia: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion.
Drawing on the author’s extensive research expertise and his links with welfare practitioners, it explains the limitations of existing approaches and presents new findings that build on the insights of disadvantaged Australians and community views about the essentials of life, providing the basis for a new deprivation-based poverty measure.Results produced by the new measure, are compared with conventional (income-based) estimates of poverty and with different dimensions of social exclusion.
This important new book pulls together in a consistent and coherent manner the author’s recent research on poverty and other dimensions of social disadvantage in Australia and draws on his decades of experience researching these (and related) topics.
Peter Saunders has an international reputation for his work on poverty and related fields. This work led to his election as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and his research eminence was recognised in his appointment as a University of South Wales Scientia Professor. He is currently President of the Australian Social Policy Association and of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security.
To be launched by Alison McClelland
http://www.pc.gov.au/about-us/commissioners/alison-mcclelland
ABC Radio National Presentation – ‘Poverty: new understandings’
Professor Peter Saunders' on Radio National – 28 April 2011
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