The latest progress report on Closing the Gap shows that efforts to address appalling levels of disadvantage have made marginal improvements, in spite of billions of dollars in government funding. (croakey.org)
It's the state prisons which labour under appalling levels of overcrowding. (politics.co.uk)
One of its joint secretaries, the Reverend Benjamin Waugh, lived in Greenwich, London, and witnessed appalling levels of deprivation and cruelty. (bookbrowse.com)