The Household Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) survey by the University of Melbourne gives insights into how Australian life and attitudes have changed over the last 20 years. The survey tracks the lives of largely the same group of 17,000 Australians, with the latest statistical report revealing various trends that emerged between 2001 and 2019. University of Melbourne Professor Roger Wilkins, who is the deputy director of the HILDA survey, told The Epoch Times that this project is able to provide a much richer picture compared to regular surveys. “[In other surveys, for example,] you see a certain number of people in poverty, but you don’t know whether they are just temporarily in poverty or whether it’s the same people who are poor every year or new people, so we can answer that question,” Wilkins said. HILDA also collects a comprehensive amount of data covering broad aspects of people’s lives. …