Australian government's Income support measures have eliminated poverty

Picture: Jerad Williams. The government’s extraordinary income support measures have virtually eliminated poverty in Australia, according to new ¬research from the ANU’s Centre for Social Research — which also sets out the devastating societal impact had JobKeeper and JobSeeker not been implemented. The paper finds that without ¬intervention, COVID-19 would have thrown 2.2 million Australians into poverty, lifting the number from 1.6 million before the crisis to 3.8 million — or about 15 per cent of the population………. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/coronavirus-cash-spared-22-million-from-poverty/news-story/eb727e93b7f57b35fba1296918edf128