the ACT is typically a high earning mostly middle-upper class territory, I don't think it has the burgeoning lower-welfare class that Tassie has, so probably not.
One only has to look at real estate prices in the nations capital and that they are indicative of a large portion of the populace earning decent coin.
Yeah the ACT has a higher average income than normal, but cost of living is way higher than the average as well.
I don't really want to get into it, but inbetweeners (earn enough to fall into higher tax brackets and not to qualify for social welfare programs, but not enough to be financially stable) are a real thing and a real problem in Canberra, and our statistics are weighted by a couple of industries and a minority of people in those industries who are on stupid money.
The real estate situation in Canberra is almost exclusively because of a massive supply shortage and an unsustainable immigration rate as well. The ACT rental market has got to be the worst in the country as well.
So yeah, these issues are significantly more complex than they are being portrayed here.
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