The idea that there is a large number of people who, in crude terms, you might think of as being losers, who are basically beyond help, it’s factually incorrect.

From an individual point of view, wouldn’t you rather be a person who has a problem for one year instead of for three years? And from the community’s point of view, isn’t it better that...

I want to see then doing — such as intervening when young people become unemployed — but it tends to be concentrated on childhood and teenage years, and … programs need to be made available...

Normal statistics are like photographs. They can tell us only that X percentage have a problem. They can’t tell us whether those problems are short term or long term, … HILDA enables us to get...

The underclass, if there is one, is quite small and most people who fall into a position of disadvantage overcome their problems and get back on their feet, … It’s bloody hard but the message...