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Defining and Measuring Child Poverty in Australia

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By Sharon Bessell, Cadhla O’Sullivan
| Austaxpolicy
Poverty harms children now and into adulthood. It limits health, learning, and wellbeing, and undermines rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, including an adequate standard of living, health care, education, and play. In Australia, fifty years after the Henderson Report, we do not have an official definition and measure of poverty.
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Children in poverty should be seen and heard

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By Sharon Bessell
| Institute of Community Directors Australia
In a speech at the recent Catholic Social Services Australia conference in Sydney, Professor Sharon Bessell shared findings from her ‘More for Children’ research report into the extent of child poverty in Australia and why as a nation, we need to do more to help disadvantaged kids. More for Children grew out of the conviction that in a very wealthy country, we can do more to support all children. Our aim is to better understand child poverty – from a child standpoint – in order to act.
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Creating child-inclusive societies

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By Helen Skouteris, Michael Marmot, Sharon Bessell
| The Lancet Verified
Get full text access Log in, subscribe or purchase for full access. References 1. Trebeck, K ∙ Williams, J The economics of arrival Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2019 3. Lister, R Poverty Polity Press, Cambridge, 2004 4. Yuval-Davis, N Gender and nation SAGE Publications, London, 1997 5. United Nations Convention on the rights of the child 6. United Nations Development Programme Sustainable development goals 7. Salmeron-Gomez, D ∙ Engilbertsdottir, S ∙ Cuesta Leiva, JA ∙ et al.
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