The financial exclusion and homelessness Nexus: Lessons from the Northern Territory

Homelessness in the Northern Territory stands at 13 times the national average. In Katherine the figure is 31 times the national figure. For the country as a whole, Indigenous Australians make up 20 per cent of all homeless persons, despite only accounting for about 3 per cent of the population. In the Northern Territory, Indigenous Australians comprise over 88 per cent of the homeless population. It is also worth noting that these figures likely represent an underreporting given the difficulties of collecting homelessness data on Census night.