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33. Financial Hardship - What it's like living with debt you can't repay

Episode Summary

How do we define Financial Hardship? How prevalent is it in Australian society? What are the common 'triggers' that can lead people into a place of Financial Hardship? Evgenia Bourova from Melbourne Law School shares her research on living with debt you can't repay.

Episode Notes

Evegnia Bourova is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School. This research comes from the Financial Hardship Project. 

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*CORRECTION: Blaize mentions that the research was conducted in 2019. This is incorrect, the surey was carried out in 2015 and published late 2018.

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