by Australia's Right To Food Coalition | Oct 21, 2022 | Advocacy, Opinion, personal piece
Food insecurity affects households when a family member is in custody. Sometimes the person in custody is the sole earner of the household, leaving their partner and children in dire straits after incarceration. I was once contacted by a woman who is a New Zealand...
by Australia's Right To Food Coalition | Oct 21, 2022 | Experience, Opinion, personal piece
In a country like Australia, (where so much wealth has been made very quickly from the stealing of Aboriginal land, and extraction of resources) it’s kind of mind-boggling that poverty still exists. It’s hard to believe that in a country where there’s 5 million tonnes...
by Australia's Right To Food Coalition | Sep 24, 2021 | Opinion, Policy
Australian Food Insecurity In April 2020, Agriculture Minister David Littleproud claimed that coronavirus was no risk to Australia’s food security. In May of the same year, Littleproud went further in saying that we were one of the most food secure nations in...
by Australia's Right To Food Coalition | Jun 6, 2021 | Opinion
Food insecurity appears to be rising steadily in Australia, with the number of those seeking support from food banks having more than doubled to 31% from 2019-2020. The last few years have brought COVID-19, drought, bushfires and floods – disasters that have...