Ruth Fincher

About The Author

Ruth Fincher is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. She is a Board member of the International Social Science Council and a past Vice President of the International Geographical Union.

Books by Ruth Fincher

Australian Poverty

Then and Now

By Ruth Fincher and John Nieuwenhuysen
The most important effort to measure poverty in post-war Australia was the 1975 Royal Commission on Poverty, chaired by Professor Ronald Henderson, CMG AO, of the University of Melbourne. Twenty-two years later, the authors of Australian Poverty: Then and Now provide a telling comparison between ...
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