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Income inequality exists in Australia, but the true picture may not be as bad as you thought

  • Written by Roger Wilkins, Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
imageWealth inequality remains a problem in Australia, but it is lower now than in the years leading up to the GFC.Flickr/Sacha Fernandez, CC BY-NC-SA

We hear a lot about inequality in Australia but the true picture is much more complicated than the headlines usually suggest.

The data indicate that wealth inequality has grown but is lower now than...

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