Matildas paid much less than Socceroos
The Matildas will be paid less in match fees if they win the women's World Cup final than the Socceroos get for a single group-stage game.
Each Matilda was paid $500 a game in the lead up to the World Cup. Their male counterparts received $7500 for doing the same thing.
If the Matildas win the final in Canada, they will earn a total of $5600 in match fees, while each Socceroo pocketed $103,148 after they won the Asian Cup earlier this year.
If the Matildas lose their World Cup final, they will leave Canada with just $2850. If the Socceroos had lost the Asian Cup at the same stage, they would each have been paid $66,600.
Australian inequality rising
Australia’s rich are getting richer, and the gap is widening.
Australians in the top 20% of incomes receive five times as much as those in the bottom 20%. A person in the top 20% has 70 times as much accumulated wealth as a person in the bottom 20%.
The wealth of the top 20% increased by 28% from 2004 to 2012, while the wealth of the bottom increased by just 3%. The top 10% owns 45% of wealth, while the bottom owns 5.1%.
This means Australia has income inequality higher than the OECD average, but slightly lower wealth inequality.
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