UNSW Sydney and the Australian Council of Social Service have entered a major new five-year partnership to reduce poverty and inequality in Australia. The partnership will monitor Australia’s progress in tackling poverty and inequality and support interdisciplinary research to highlight the health, housing and legal dimensions of these challenges. Through collaboration between researchers, policy practitioners, community services and advocates the partnership will work to influence change to policy and legal settings.
The Inequality in Australia 2018 Report will be officially launched at UNSW Sydney on 31 July. Please join:
to discuss the report's contents and implications and to hear more about the longer-term plans for the partnership.
Additional confirmed speakers for the event include:
Location: Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington (Building G19) Venue Map
Peter Saunders was Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW from February 1987 until July 2009, and now holds a Research Chair in Social Policy within the Centre. His research interests include poverty and income distribution, household needs and living standards, social security reform, comparative social policy and ageing and social protection in China. He is Australia’s leading poverty researcher and his work in the field has been widely published, nationally and internationally. In 2015-2016 he served as a member of the Advisory Board for the World Bank Commission on Global Poverty.
Cassandra Goldie has been CEO of Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) since July 2010. With public policy expertise in economic and social issues, civil society, social justice and human rights, she has represented the interests of people who are disadvantaged and civil society in major national and international processes as well as in grassroots communities, including previously as Director of Sex and Age Discrimination with the Australian Human Rights Commission, Director and Principal Solicitor with the Darwin Community Legal Service and Senior Executive with Legal Aid in Western Australia.
