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Not only has the Living in Australia study been noticed at the highest level of Government, but there has been growing acceptance of it as an accurate source of data about issues that are important to Australians.

2024

March

• The Conversation, 5 March 2024
  Hearing loss is twice as common in Australia’s lowest income groups, our research shows
• Financial Review, 6 March 2024
  How 12 extra hours of unpaid work weekly fuels economic inequality
• Mirage News, 24 March 2024
  Boost To Health And Wellbeing In Retirement

February

• Brisbane Times, 11 February 2024
  Why young Australians are more inclined to say ‘I don’t’
• The Conversation, 12 February 2024
  HILDA survey at a glance: 7 charts reveal we’re smoking less, taking more drugs and still binge drinking
• Financial Review, 12 February 2024
  Gender pay gap shrinks at fastest rate in 20 years
• The Guardian, 12 February 2024
  Number of young Australians in psychological distress continues sharp rise
• Pursuit, 12 February 2024
  The 'perfect storm' causing Australians psychological distress
• Pursuit, 12 February 2024
  More Australian adult children are living with their parents longer
• Pursuit, 12 February 2024
  Over the last 21 years, the highest earners received the most tax relief
• Pursuit, 12 February 2024
  Vaping is 'a young persons phenomenon' in Australia
• Pursuit, 12 February 2024
  Australia's young people are getting lonelier
• University of Melbourne Newsroom, 12 February 2024
  HILDA data shows psychological distress rising, loneliness highest amongst young people
• Pedestrian TV, 12 February 2024
  Aussies Are Smoking Less But Taking More Drugs & Binge Drinking, According To A New Survey
• ABC News Radio, 12 February 2024
  Why are less and less Australians tying the knot?
• The Project, Channel 10, 12 February 2024
  New Survey Reveals More Aussies Are Foregoing Marriage And Choosing De Facto Relationships Instead
• Women's Agenda, 12 February 2024
  HILDA study shows young women experience higher levels of psychological distress
• SBS News, 12 February 2024
  Australia is taking more drugs, smoking less and still binge drinking: A tale in seven charts
• SBS News, 13 February 2024
  The kids are not alright: Is Australia in the midst of a youth mental health crisis?
• Mirage News, 15 February 2024
  Marital Harmony or Conflict Impacts 10% of Mental Health Self-Assessments
• SBS News, 17 February 2024
  The young Australian adults who aren't moving out of their parents' home
• The Conversation, 22 February 2024
  Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash

2023

November

• The Conversation, 6 November 2023
  Homeowners often feel better about life than renters, but not always – whether you are mortgaged matters
• Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 2023
  Have four kids, pay no income tax. Now that’s a family-focused plan
• The Guardian, 28 November 2023
  Successive Australian generations suffering worse mental health than the one before, study shows
• The Canberra Times, 28 November 2023
  Research finds big mental health decline, cause unclear

September

• Mirage News, 1 September 2023
  Victorian Women Trail Men in Health, Wellbeing, Income
• news.com.au, 2 September 2023
  Leading small business group rejects bid to extend super to teenage workers
• The Conversation, 4 September 2023
  Feeling lonely? Too many of us are. Here’s what our supermarkets can do to help
• The University of Sydney News, 4 September 2023
  Parents worst affected by COVID-19 lockdown
• The Straits Times, 5 September 2023
  Slow, ‘chatty’ supermarket checkouts can help the lonely
• Mirage News, 22 September 2023
  Study links obesity and sleep

August

• The Guardian, 4 August 2023
  Australians living longer but working in poor health in later life, research shows
• Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2023
  ‘Costing us a fortune’: Australians still failing basic financial literacy tests

July

• news.com.au, 3 July 2023
  Why more men than women are returning to the office
• The Age, 19 July 2023
  Home hopes of the big wealth transfer
• The Guardian, 23 July 2023
  The welfare myth of ‘lifters’ and ‘leaners’ must be put behind us
• The Conversation, 28 July 2023
  Australians are living and working longer – but not necessarily healthier, new study shows

June

• The Canberra Times, 5 June 2023
  How to help the young buy a home

May

• ABC News, 3 May 2023
  Economist slams plan to raise JobSeeker only for over-55s, with younger recipients more financially stressed
• The Conversation, 8 May 2023
  The case for boosting JobSeeker for all: younger people report greater financial hardship

April

• UQ News, 17 April 2023
  Motherhood hits women’s earnings for a decade

February

• The Age, 1 February 2023
  School alone won’t fix financial literacy
• The Conversation, 14 February 2023
  Success in life is tied to parental education. That’s why we need to track intergenerational school performance

January

• ABC News, 11 January 2023
  Meet the 'Sandwich Generation' — the growing sector of women caring for their children and their parents

2022

December

• Pursuit, 5 December 2022
  A light at the end of the inequality tunnel?
• Pursuit, 5 December 2022
  Navigating the great office exodus
• Financial Review, 5 December 2022
  Remote working made Australians less productive: survey
• Financial Review, 5 December 2022
  Most Australians can’t answer all of these five basic money questions
• The Advertiser, 5 December 2022
  Melburnians the worst off after the pandemic
• Mirage News, 5 December 2022
  Income equity for Australian women 200 years away, affecting health and wellbeing: Report
• ABC News, 5 December 2022
  Data confirms young people's pandemic struggles, but reflects relationship bright spots
• Pursuit, 5 December 2022
  A COVID-19 state of mind
• Pursuit, 5 December 2022
  The rise and rise of job insecurity
• The Champion Post, 5 December 2022
  How COVID-19 lockdowns made life worse
• Financial Review, 5 December 2022
  How the pandemic changed Australia in 2020
• The Conversation, 5 December 2022
  Australian private high school enrolments have jumped 70% since 2012
• The Conversation, 5 December 2022
  HILDA finds working from home boosts women’s job satisfaction more than men’s, and that has a downside
• SBS News, 5 December 2022
  Study shows the pandemic further worsened declining mental health
• 3AW, 5 December 2022
  How the pandemic changed the lives of Melburnians
• University of Melbourne Newsroom, 5 December 2022
  Our first pandemic year: HILDA survey reveals how Australians were affected by the start of COVID-19
• ABC News, 5 December 2022
  Data confirms young people's pandemic struggles
• Nine News, 5 December 2022
  Young Australians 'substantial' decline in mental health during pandemic
• The Australian, 5 December 2022
  Twice as many Melburnians say life was “much worse” in pandemic than rest of Australia

August

• The West Australian, 2 August 2022
  Cost of living: The emergency bill a third of cash-strapped Australians simply could not pay
• The West Australian, 3 August 2022
  Could you raise this much cash? One-third can't as rates rise AGAIN 

July

• WA Today, 12 July 2022
  The ‘motherhood penalty’: Women’s wages drop for up to a decade after birth
• The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 2022
  ‘Lost opportunity’: Gender bias stalls progress on closing pay gap
• Women's Agenda, 14 July 2022
  Australia’s gender pay gap is nearing $1 billion per week: Report

June

• Pursuit, 9 June 2022
  A Family breakup is a poverty trap for women
• Women's Agenda, 10 June 2022
  Women’s probability of being in poverty more than doubles after separation

May

• ABC News, 2 May 2022
  Talkback: Families and social change over 30 years
• The Guardian, 6 May 2022
  Men take time from female partners for exercise, Australian study finds
• The Conversation, 9 May 2022
  Poverty isn’t a temporary experience in Australia. We need urgent policy tackling persistent disadvantage
• Pursuit, 9 May 2022
  Persistant poverty is a major policy issue
• The Adelaide Advertiser, 17 May 2022
  A good gig in tough times
• The Conversation, 19 May 2022
  Raiding super early has already left women worse off. Let’s not repeat the mistake for home deposits
• University of Melbourne Newsroom, 27 May 2022
  Effect of lockdown on mental health in Australia

April

• YourLifeChoices, 18 April 2022
  How loneliness increases your mortality risk
• Women's Agenda, 29 April 2022
  Coupled women with children experienced worse mental health during lockdown

March

• The Conversation, 24 March 2022
  Stability and security: the keys to closing the mental health gap between renters and home owners
• The Conversation, 24 March 2022
  Stability and security: the keys to closing the mental health gap between renters and home owners

February

• ABC News, 20 February 2022
  Anxiety is rising among Australia's young people, but it's not just due to COVID-19
• ABC News, 21 February 2022
  Women have clawed back lost work during COVID-19, but the data shows they remain undervalued
• The Age, 25 February 2022
  Traditional gender roles still govern housework despite smaller pay gap
• Sydney Morning Herald, 28 February 2022
  Traditional gender roles still govern housework

January

• Women's Agenda, 19 January 2022
  Australians are redefining what romantic relationships and families look like
• The West Australian, 20 January 2022
  More couples are now living apart, but is it a good thing?

2021

December

• The Australian, 6 December 2021
  Stubborn gender gap in unpaid work for couples with kids
• Pursuit, 6 December 2021
  Living Apart Together
• Pursuit, 6 December 2021
  How we've changed in 20 years
• Pursuit, 6 December 2021
  Distress Signals
• Pursuit, 6 December 2021
  What's the impact of self-control on our lives?
• Pursuit, 6 December 2021
  A third of Australia under chronic time stress
• The Australian, 7 December 2021
  Unpaid labour still women’s work
• The Age, 7 December 2021
  Young, stressed ... and that was before COVID
• Brisbane Times, 7 December 2021
  Broke and overwhelmed: Life gets harder for young Australians
• Women's Agenda, 7 December 2021
  HILDA survey reveals women still do almost double the unpaid work of men
• 3AW, 7 December 2021
  New research finds Australians are more stressed and depressed than ever before
• Sydney Morning Herald, 7 December 2021
  Broke and overwhelmed: Life gets harder for young Australians
• Illawarra Mercury, 7 December 2021
  Income inequality steady over two decades
• 7news.com.au, 7 December 2021
  Key statistics in the latest HILDA survey
• The Guardian, 7 December 2021
  Women do 21 hours more unpaid work than men a week, national survey finds
• The Guardian, 7 December 2021
  In middle Australia, rosy wealth data can hide a world of pain
• University of Melbourne Newsroom, 7 December 2021
  HILDA shows the changing face of 21st century Australia
• The Conversation, 7 December 2021
  Half of women over 35 who want a child don’t end up having one, or have fewer than they planned
• The Conversation, 7 December 2021
  Graduates lose pay advantage in tougher times, but overall workforce entrants seem surprisingly satisfied
• The New Daily, 7 December 2021
  Australians experience chronic time stress. Here’s how to handle it
• Courier Mail, 7 December 2021
  Women still doing bulk of housework, survey finds
• SBS News, 7 December 2021
  Report shows Australians are highly stressed
• pedestrian.tv, 7 December 2021
  A Long-Term Study Revealed That It Really *Is* A Shit Time To Be A Young Person, Actually
• ABC The World Today, 7 December 2021
  'Alarming rise' in young women experiencing psychological distress: report
• Herald Sun, 8 December 2021
  Leave home? You’re kidding
• PRObono, 8 December 2021
  The changing face of Australia
• financy.com.au, 8 December 2021
  Women burdened by unpaid work load may never see equality
• YourLifeChoices, 8 December 2021
  Older Aussies working longer as more kids refuse to leave home

November

• The Conversation, 8 November 2021
  Why happiness is becoming more expensive and out of reach for many Australians
• Canstar, 23 November 2021
  What is the average age to move out of home in Australia?

October

• WA Today, 4 October 2021
  Mental health distress levels double for young people during pandemic

September

• Mirage News, 20 September 2021
  Short shift for volunteer numbers
• Eminetra New Zealand, 26 September 2021
  Positive outlook increases the chances of a healthier lifestyle

August

• Canberra Times, 25 August 2021
  The official figures say wages aren't growing - here's why they're wrong

June

• WA Today, 30 June 2021
  Families spend more on childcare than on groceries or bills

May

• Australian Men's Health, 6 May 2021
  Studies Say if You’re Over 40, You Should Be Pushing For A 3-Day Work Week

April

• Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 2021
  ASFA says most retirees exhaust their super savings

March

• The West Australian, 8 March 2021
  ‘Pet territory’ isn’t just relegated to backyard
• The Conversation, 31 March 2021
  A shocking finding that will change the way you think about gender pay

February

• Sydney Morning Herald, 11 February 2021
  Here’s the happy news on paid parental leave
• ABC News, 11 February 2021
  The losers — and surprising winners — from phasing out stamp duty
• The Guardian, 23 February 2021
  Women continue to carry the load when it comes to unpaid work
• Blue Mountains Gazette, 24 February 2021
  Single, childless, female and ageing: the grim future facing some Australian women