Whilst the real estate bullshit goes on, making buying housing out of reach for many people but making the house owners "rich", people are going hungry. A lot of them.
Thousands of West Australians seeking food from Foodbank, half of them children, are being turned away due to a lack of provisions.Unforgivable. Corporations sucking money out of Australia paying no tax, whilst Australians don't have enough money for food. And these are the sort of people the Abbott gov wants to do heavy lifting? Pay to see a doctor? A blood test? X-rays? More for scripts?
Foodbank WA chief executive Greg Hebble said its 2014 Hunger Report released today showed they were turning away 8,800 people a month.
The charity provides food for more than 51,000 people in the state every month.
But Mr Hebble said demand for food relief had climbed 15 per cent in the past year with low income families the hardest hit.
"The biggest area we're actually providing for are low-income families and that is followed by single parent families and the unemployed," Mr Hebble said.
"Many of them are living pay cheque [to] pay cheque, their income is low, once they get general expenses out of the way, they never find enough money at the end of the budget for food." more
If this is the richest country on earth I'd hate to see the poor ones.
And this from Tasmania:
A Tasmanian emergency relief organisation is pleading for more donations as more families struggle to put food on the table.
Demand for food welfare has risen in Tasmania as more people struggle to feed themselves and their families.
But Foodbank Tasmania said it had turned down offers of fresh produce from the mainland due to quarantine restrictions.
The charity was in the process of trying to fill Christmas hampers.
Organisers said they would have to dip into their reserves to meet this year's requirements.
A recent cut in State Government funding had added to the uncertainty, according to Foodbank's Edward Gauden. more
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