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Advance Australia (un)Fair

NATSEM at the University of Canberra has released a report [pdf] on trends in spatial socio-economic inequality from 2001 to 2006 [via Peter Martin]. As Martin suggests, it’s a useful corrective to claims lacking nuance that the Howard years saw a rising tide of prosperity lift all boats equally. There were definite winners in the household income stakes, as this graph demonstrates: