Research about money matters
Our research about money matters focuses on increasing access of disadvantaged Australians to affordable, appropriate financial services. This includes:
- evaluating existing services and programs
- documenting the needs of people living on low incomes
- making the case for mainstream services to be made more accessible.
See more details about the work of our Research and Policy Centre on financial inclusion.
Research reports include:
Victoria Johnson, Said Dileri & Naw Eh Ywa 2012, Financial life in a new setting: experiences of Afghan and Burmese (Chin and Karen) communities in Melbourne, Australia (PDF file, 395 KB)
Vawser and Associates 2011, Progress Loans evaluation 2011 (PDF file, 360 KB)
Roslyn Russell, Lauren Wall and Minh Phuong Doan 2011, Evaluation of Saver Plus past participants 2011 (PDF file, 547 KB)
Eve Bodsworth 2011, Many faces of saving: the social dimensions of Saver Plus (PDF file, 331 KB)
Saver Plus summary report (PDF file, 387 KB) contains summaries of both the above Saver Plus reports
Dominic Colins 2011, Reducing the risks: improving access to home contents and vehicle insurance for low-income Australians (PDF file, 443 KB)
Zuleika Arashiro 2011, Money matters in times of change: financial vulnerability through the life course (PDF file, 654 KB)
Zuleika Arashiro 2011, Promoting healthy finances: an evaluation of the Financial Health Service pilot (PDF file, 1.3 MB)