Contains some sobering stories of poverty and inequality in prosperous Australia, finding overwhelmingly that people do not experience poverty because they choose to but as a result of a range of structural causes which push them to the margins.

An updated report on the Victorian Tariff-Tracking Project. The project has tracked electricity and gas tariffs in Victoria from July 2008 (retail price deregulation took effect on January 1 2009) to July 2012, and developed a spreadsheet based tool that allows consumer advocates to build on the initial analysis and continue to track changes as...