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Bad data collection means we don't know how much the middle class is being squeezed by the wealthy

  • Written by Christopher Sheil, Visiting Fellow in History, UNSW
imageThere is a glaring need to reform Australia’s archaic wealth inequality statistics to make them commensurate with international practice. www.shutterstock.com

Australia is falling behind other nations and international bodies in measuring inequality, particularly the concentration of wealth. This also means we are in the dark about the trends...

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