So, how bad is inequality in my home town?
Extract from James Boyce's Losing Streak: How Tasmania Was Gamed By The Gambling Industry
"On
almost every index, Tasmania is the most disadvantaged state in
Australia. The economist Saul Eslake has recently established that
Tasmanians are 'older, sicker, affected more by disability, less likely
to have a job, earning less (if employed) and having less by the way of
real or financial assets than other Australians'. His Tasmania Report found that the island state has 'greater concentrations of social income
and economic disadvantage than any other State or Territory', with
gross household incomes about a third less than the national average."
~James Boyce, 'Losing Streak: How Tasmania Was Gamed By The Gambling Industry'
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