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What does Australia's recession mean for the country's most vulnerable?

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Hobart is Australia's most unaffordable city for rentals, and homelessness has been rising over the past decade.(ABC News: Giulio Saggin)

The grim economic news has heightened fears that Australians living on the margins will "fall off a cliff" into poverty once the government's COVID-19 welfare support measures end.

Welfare and health experts are urging the the Morrison Government to extend JobKeeper and JobSeeker.

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Stella Avramopoulos, CEO, Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand; President, Victoria Council of Social Service; Board member, Centre for Social Impact

Adrian Pisarski, CEO, National Shelter

Ian Hickie, Co-Director, Health and Policy, The University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre

Producer: Cathy Van Extel

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Government and Politics, Community and Society, Epidemics and Pandemics
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