Marxist Theory on Poverty in Australia
Marxist theory on poverty in Australia
In this essay I will describing poverty and its incidence in the Australian context, I also will explain the Marxist theory and its fundamental characteristics analysing the two in relation to one and other.
Researchers believe a line should be drawn, the problem of these measures is that they focus exclusively on income. But poverty is also defined through other indicators such as education, health, access to services and infrastructure, vulnerability, social exclusion, access to social capital. (http://www.aph.gov.au/library/INTGUIDE/SP/poverty.htm)
Poverty in Australia is most relevant to being relative poverty.
"Relative poverty is defined not in terms of lack of sufficient resources to meet basic needs but is about lack of access to the opportunities most people take for granted—food, shelter, income, jobs, education, health services, childcare, transport and a safe place for living and recreation as well as exclusion from social networks and isolation from community life."
(http://www.australian-options.org.au/issues/options_37/article_37_00004.asp)
Poverty in Australia is most relevant to being relative poverty as running water is readily available to most and we have a welfare system for those that are in the lower income bracket. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia)
Poverty in Australia is where people have unreasonably low living standards compared with others in the entire community, and when these people are unable to buy necessities.
These necessities may include enough food, paying bills/rent, and paying for anything else that falls out of these direct necessities.
Poverty in Australia has reached 2.5 million. There are high rates of poverty within unemployed people, sole parent families, people with disabilities, indigenous Australians, and some groups of immigrants and refugees.
(http://www.australian-options.org.au/issues/options_37/article_37_00004.asp)
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In this essay I will describing poverty and its incidence in the Australian context, I also will explain the Marxist theory and its fundamental characteristics analysing the two in relation to one and other.
Researchers believe a line should be drawn, the problem of these measures is that they focus exclusively on income. But poverty is also defined through other indicators such as education, health, access to services and infrastructure, vulnerability, social exclusion, access to social capital. (http://www.aph.gov.au/library/INTGUIDE/SP/poverty.htm)
Poverty in Australia is most relevant to being relative poverty.
"Relative poverty is defined not in terms of lack of sufficient resources to meet basic needs but is about lack of access to the opportunities most people take for granted—food, shelter, income, jobs, education, health services, childcare, transport and a safe place for living and recreation as well as exclusion from social networks and isolation from community life."
(http://www.australian-options.org.au/issues/options_37/article_37_00004.asp)
Poverty in Australia is most relevant to being relative poverty as running water is readily available to most and we have a welfare system for those that are in the lower income bracket. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia)
Poverty in Australia is where people have unreasonably low living standards compared with others in the entire community, and when these people are unable to buy necessities.
These necessities may include enough food, paying bills/rent, and paying for anything else that falls out of these direct necessities.
Poverty in Australia has reached 2.5 million. There are high rates of poverty within unemployed people, sole parent families, people with disabilities, indigenous Australians, and some groups of immigrants and refugees.
(http://www.australian-options.org.au/issues/options_37/article_37_00004.asp)
People living on
References: Class & Class conflict in Australia; Rick Kuhn and Tom O’Lincoln, 1996. Class in Australia; Craig Mc Gregor, 1997. Sociology Australia, third edition; Judith Bessant & Rob Watts, 2007.