Phillip O'Neill writes: Sure, Australia's poorest 20 per cent of households are protected by the nation's welfare system. But for most households this protection is the sum total of their income and their only access to services.

By Phillip O'Neill
July 19 2021 - 6:00am
Getting to the bottom of prosperity surge
Getting to the bottom of prosperity surge

A fair swag of Novocastrian households are millionaires. Their wealth comes from two sources, owning a house and building lifelong savings in superannuation accounts.

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