In Prosperity and Distress in Australia’s Cities and Regions, Scott Baum, William Mitchell and Michael Flanagan have mapped a Prosperity and Distress Index (PDI) for federal electorates. While the level of stress is uneven within electorates, the city-country divide is stark. (See map below)
Prosperity and Distress in Australian Localities 2016
The map shows prosperity is concentrated in the major centres. Elsewhere, distress reflects the loss of many “valu…
