Page 3087 - Week 09 - Thursday, 13 October 2022
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Below the surface—The hidden women in the ACT in middle income households at risk of ending up in poverty—Emma Davidson, Women’s Centre for Health Matters Inc., dated June 2019.
Beyond crisis: working with Canberra’s professional firms and businesses to make safer choices easier for survivors of domestic violence—Women’s Centre for Health Matters Inc., dated July 2017.
Creating Opportunity or Entrenching Disadvantage? 5 Years on—ACT Labour Market Data Update— ACT Council of Social Service and Women’s Centre for Health Matters Inc., dated October 2019.
Hidden disadvantage among women in the ACT—Emma Davidson, Women’s Centre for Health Matters Inc., dated June 2018.
Hidden disadvantage in the ACT: report for ACT Anti-Poverty Week—National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling and the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis University of Canberra, dated October 2017.
Housing affordability and the labour market in the ACT—Housing and homelessness policy consortium, undated.
Poverty and Covid-19 in the ACT—Factsheet—ACT Council of Social Service Inc., dated October 2021.
Proportion of adult women and adult men living in a sole parent family in low income households, by the ACT suburbs, 2016—Map.
Rental affordability snapshot 2022—Anglicare NSW South, NSW West and ACT.
Shattered myths—20 years of ACT Council of Social Service work on poverty—ACT Council of Social Service Inc., dated November 2019.
MRS KIKKERT (Ginninderra) (4.12): I thank Ms Lee for moving this very important motion. I support without reservation the commissioning of an independent inquiry into the prevalence of poverty in Canberra.
As the motion notes, 38,000 Canberrans are currently living in poverty. Almost one-quarter of these are children. But these are not just numbers to me. As a member for Ginninderra, I am acutely aware that a disproportionate number of the territory’s working poor and struggling families live in my electorate. For me, this issue is personal. These are my neighbours and my friends. These are the people who have twice chosen me to be their voice in this place. I honour them today by speaking on their behalf in support of this motion.
Let me give some figures. According to the latest census data, residents in the Ginninderra electorate have the lowest average income in the ACT. This is true across the categories of personal income, family income and household income. The average family in Belconnen earns almost 21 per cent less than the average family in Mr Barr and Mr Rattenbury’s electorate. As everyone understands, there is a huge difference.
Despite working hard, far too many Belconnen residents are struggling to keep a roof over their heads. In 2016 8.9 per cent of households in my electorate were in rental stress, paying more than 30 per cent of household income in rent. Five years later, that figure had ballooned to 25.1 per cent.
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