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Travers McLeod

Travers McLeod

Travers McLeod is the executive director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence, a social justice organisation working to prevent and alleviate poverty across Australia.

Rough sleepers in central Melbourne on Tuesday.

Make no mistake, poverty is a policy choice

The question we should be asking those running for public office is how many Australians will come out of poverty if they win?

  • Travers McLeod

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We need to make our country a better place to be a child.

We need to make Australia a better place to be a child, and raise one

Australian families spend more as a share of their income on early childhood services than almost anyone else in the world, but we are ranked sixth-last in developed countries for how well we support our children.

  • Leslie Loble and Travers McLeod