This week in our summer series, we head back to August 2022 to examine the growing demands for food assistance from workers and their families.
The promise of the Australian Dream is that you should be able to work one decent, secure job and earn enough pay to put a roof over your head, support your family and thrive.
That all seems like a pipe dream in the current climate, where insecure work, no entitlements, climbing inflation, and a housing squeeze means that hard-working Australians are driven to the margins.
Many of them are turning to organisations like Foodbank to help them make ends meet.
Foodbank is Australia’s largest food relief organisation, operating on a scale that makes it crucial to the work of the front-line charities who are feeding vulnerable Australians.
Foodbank provides more than 70% of the food rescued for food relief organisations nationwide.
Matt Tilley is acting of CEO at Foodbank in Victoria.
He joins us on the pod.
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