Bruce Headey Quotes on People (3 Quotes)

Normal statistics are like photographs. They can tell us only that X percentage have a problem. They can't tell us whether those problems are short term or long term, ... HILDA enables us to get a far better understanding of things and the news is good. HILDA tells us the number of people in Australia who are truly disadvantaged is small and many of them can be helped.

The underclass, if there is one, is quite small and most people who fall into a position of disadvantage overcome their problems and get back on their feet, ... It's bloody hard but the message is we shouldn't give up on people. The evidence, at the moment, is that most people who become poor don't stay poor for long, so let's not write them off.

The idea that there is a large number of people who, in crude terms, you might think of as being losers, who are basically beyond help, it's factually incorrect.