Poverty in Australia

Hugh Mackay in the article cited below also quotes ACOSS (for non-Australians, that's Australian Council of Social Services, a peak body promoting social welfare issues). "ACOSS estimates that about 2 million Australians could be classified as 'poor'; about 30 per cent of households have a combined annual household income of less that $20,000". Perhaps not poor in an international sense, but relevant in the environment of modern western societies.