Report by Megan Weier and Phil Usher. Centre for Social Impact and First Nations Foundation.
May 2020.
In 2019, our research estimated that across Australia, one in ten Indigenous people who took our survey were classified as financially secure, based on our framework of financial resilience. Additionally, severe financial stress was reported by more than half of the sample. This response looks at the financial impact and risks of COVID-19 on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Centre for Social Impact and First Nations Foundation policy response to the COVID-19 Disease is based on 3 key strategies: Caring for communities, access to appropriate services, and targeting high-cost lending and misleading advice.
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