Annual measurement will rate governments' child poverty reduction efforts
The Coalition government has committed to reduce child poverty but targets yet to be set.
Brent Edwards Tue, 30 Jan 2018
Under the government’s child poverty legislation it will have to outline in its budget each year what progress it is making to lift children out of hardship.
The Child Poverty Reduction Bill does not itself set the targets but it does provide measures by which they should be set. This government
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