Anti-Poverty Week 2026 – Towards an ACT Free from Poverty

This week is Anti-Poverty Week. In 2026, the proportion of Canberrans living in poverty is estimated to be at its highest level since 2001. On Monday, we delivered a report out the front of the legislative assembly calling on the federal government to establish an official measure of poverty and to introduce targets to reduce them and urging the ACT government to continue to invest in public housing and early intervention measures for child poverty.