What is the poorest town in Australia?

In 2016 the Australian Taxation Office listed Mungallala as having the lowest mean taxable income by postcode, making it the poorest town in Australia, which led the ABC to do a documentary on the town for their online "storyhunters" program.
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What is the richest town in Australia?

Bellevue Hill is the most expensive suburb in Australia with a median house price of $6.625 million, and Vaucluse is not far behind with a median of $6.3 million. Some of its past and current notable residents include the Fairfax family, Kerry Packer, James Packer, Lachlan Murdoch and Toni Collette.
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What is the poorest town in Queensland?

Welcome to Australia's poorest town: Mungallala, Queensland — average annual income $3,148. The residents of Mungallala, in Queensland's mid south, take home an average salary of a little over $3,000 a year according to the Australian Taxation Office, making the tiny rural town the poorest in Australia.
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What is the poorest place in Sydney?

Fairfield 2165. According to sobering data on unemployment, poor income, and low educational achievement, FAIRFIELD has been designated as Sydney's most disadvantaged neighborhood.
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Is Australia a poor nation?

Australia is considered a wealthy nation with a market-based economy that has a comparatively high gross domestic product and per capita income. Its economy is driven by the service sector and the export of commodities.
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Is Australia richer than Canada?

Australia and Canada have similar levels of GDP per capita (based on purchasing power parity, nominal GDP per capita was around US$ 7 000 for Australia and US$ 9 000 for Canada in 008). Since 1990, Australia's growth in real GDP per capita has been a little higher than Canada's.
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Is Australia richer than India?

Australia has a GDP per capita of $50,400 as of 2017, while in India, the GDP per capita is $7,200 as of 2017.
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What is the poorest suburb in Australia?

What is the poorest suburb in Australia? The poorest suburbs in Australia are Burren Junction and Drildool in New South Wales, according to the ATO's latest figures. All ten of the lowest-earning postcodes by average taxable income were located in either NSW or Queensland.
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Where do Bogans live in Sydney?

Western Sydney is reputed to be the home of the Bogan.
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What is the poorest state in Australia?

The worst performing states are Tasmania, with incomes 26% below the national income and wealth average, as well as South Australia which is 19% below the average household income and 20% below the national net wealth.
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Where do most Brits live in Australia?

Over one million British people live in Australia with most settling around the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
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What is the poorest town in Victoria?

Poverty rates varied by region. The SA2 with the lowest poverty rate was Beaumaris at 6%, and the SA2 with the highest poverty rate was Carlton at 40%. The most common poverty rates for Victorian SA2s are between 10 and 20% (Figure 1).
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What is the poorest suburb in Queensland?

The most disadvantaged LGA is Cherbourg, about 250 kilometres north-west of Brisbane.
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Where do most millionaires live in Australia?

The largest city and the sixth overall best place to live in Australia, Sydney, has the highest number of millionaires. Sydney's eastern suburbs are a favoured place to live by Australia's highest-earning residents.
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What is the most expensive street in Australia?

Wolseley Road is the most expensive residential road/street in Australia and its status stands as Australia's ultimate address, with 16 of the top 100 most expensive houses in Sydney being located on this road.
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What's the richest suburb in Australia?

Bellevue Hill, Sydney, NSW

In the centre of Sydney's east, some of Sydney's most awe-inspiring properties are nestled within Bellevue Hill's green hills. It takes out the title as the most expensive suburb in Australia.
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What is the most bogan state in Australia?

Tasmania is the bogan capital of Australia and if you're seeking bogans in the ACT look no further than the nation's parliament. These are just some of the findings to come out of a “bogan odyssey” completed by self-proclaimed boganologist Paul Fenech.
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What is the bogan capital of Australia?

Tasmania was named the 'bogan capital of Australia' with Taswegians earning four spots in the final. On the island of Tasmania, half the population has literacy and/or numeracy difficulties, and the unemployment rate is higher than it is in mainland Australia.
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What is the English version of bogan?

The colloquial term, used widely in Australia and New Zealand, has been likened to the British term "chavs" and the American term "white trash".
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Which is the least developed state in Australia?

Northern Territory

This is the least populated state in the country and one of the poorest.
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Which part of Australia is the safest?

In 2019, Sydney was named the safest city in Australia and was ranked as the 5th safest city in the world on The Economist's 2019 Safe Cities Index. Melbourne was ranked 10th in the same year.
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Why is Australia so rich?

Gold, aluminum, iron ore, nickel, silver, diamonds, opal, oil, natural gas and whatnot. All these resources (and many others) are found in really huge amounts here. Australia is the largest in the world aluminum and opal producer and the third largest producer of diamonds.
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Which country is most in debt?

Japan, with its population of 127,185,332, has the highest national debt in the world at 234.18% of its GDP, followed by Greece at 181.78%. Japan's national debt currently sits at ¥1,028 trillion ($9.087 trillion USD).
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