The limitations of income‐based poverty lines are widely acknowledged, but Australia lags behind many other countries in implementing new measures of social disadvantage based on the deprivation approach. A new suite of questions included in wave 14 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics...

This paper provides an overview of the extent of the aging of the population in Australia and reviews the evidence and debates that have emerged over the extent of aging and its consequences for social policy. After a brief historical account of aging in Australia, the methods used by the...