00:00Preparing to feed the homeless, this Darwin resident's own food security is on her mind.
00:08Since a recent injury, she's had no choice but to get her groceries delivered and every dollar counts.
00:15I have this strict budget while I'm not working of how much money I can spend on food each week and that doesn't change.
00:22So when they put up their delivery from $10 to $18, I just had to choose $8 less groceries.
00:30And she's not alone, with more people visiting her soup kitchen than ever before.
00:35When we used to mostly see desperately poor looking homeless people, now we're getting families and people that you wouldn't expect.
00:473.5 million households around Australia are now struggling to feed themselves, according to Foodbank's 2025 Hunger Report,
00:56which also reveals almost half of all renters have experienced food insecurity this past year,
01:02as have one in five households earning over $91,000 a year.
01:08The charity says 20% of Australian households have either skipped meals or gone full days without eating.
01:16In the year 2024 to 2025.
01:19That's a 1% increase on last year.
01:22And a sign, Foodbank says, that hunger is becoming mainstream.
01:27When cost of living spikes the way it has, every demographic suffers.
01:31There's rent increases and that kind of thing and all these pressures put pressures on families
01:35and then unfortunately they do end up needing help and that's where we come in as a Foodbank.
01:40They're calling on the federal government to introduce a tax incentive to encourage the donation of food
01:46that would otherwise be thrown away.
01:48What the data this year tells us is really concerningly the cost of living relief measures
01:52that the federal government tried to provide in the last term of parliament
01:56didn't affect what people were putting on the table.
01:59An increasingly hungry nation hoping the government steps up to the plate.
02:04The soleus has not been restricted to the federal government to manage economic costs.
02:07And the federal government has not yet to do anyå¿™able things.
02:12In fact, the federal government has been forced to pay attention to the federal government's
02:18budget to select the federal government and the federal government.
02:20In fact, the federal government has an environmental change on credit.
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