Imaging not knowing whether you can pay the next electricity bill, cutting down on food to make it last or not being able to buy your child a birthday present.

That’s the reality of living in poverty.

Journalist Rick Morton talks about growing up poor in Australia and he provides a condemning account of the class system in this country.

Unmoderated: Rick Morton on money presented at the Perth Festival. February 22, 2020.

Speaker

Rick Morton - journalist and author