Experiencing Poverty: The Voices of Low-Income Australians

Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project Stage I: Focus Group Outcomes The research reported in this publication forms the first stage of a project designed to develop new indicators of disadvantage for Australia in the new millennium. The research is drawing on the concepts of deprivation and social exclusion to develop indicators that can form the basis of a new approach to the conceptualisation, identification and measurement of poverty.