The Lowest Rung notes

Book Review ‘The Lowest Poverty Rung: Voices of the Australian Poverty’ is a book that gives an account of the impact of the growing economic dependency. It is based on 300 interviews that were conducted with people from three main localities which included Inala, located outside Brisbane, Melbourne’s Northwest as well as Mt. Druitt which was a housing commission in the suburbs of Sydney (Peel, 2003). On reading the book, I feel that among the people that Peel discusses, the Australian b...

Book Review ‘The Lowest Poverty Rung: Voices of the Australian Poverty’ is a book that gives an account of the impact of the growing economic dependency. It is based on 300 interviews that were conducted with people from three main localities which included Inala, located outside Brisbane, Melbourne’s Northwest as well as Mt. Druitt which was a housing commission in the suburbs of Sydney (Peel, 2003). On reading the book, I feel that among the people that Peel discusses, the Australian b...