Vinnies suggests how the government can tackle poverty. Will Chalmers listen?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers convenes his productivity summit next week, trying to balance competing proposals to lower or raise taxes. 

The St Vincent de Paul Society is one of Australia’s biggest faith-based welfare agencies and, in its submission to the summit, it asks the treasurer to make ending poverty his top priority. 

• GUEST: MARK GAETANI is the St Vincent de Paul Society's national president.