It’s become clear that the Morrison Government’s moral compass has broken with its decision to halve funding to charity Foodbank, which provides meals to 710,000 needy Australians:
Foodbank says funding for its Key Staples program, which makes sure essential supplies like rice, bread and vegetables get to hungry people, will drop from $750,000 to $427,000…
It is Australia’s largest food provider to schools for breakfast programs…
“We are dumbfounded,” Foodbank chief executive Brianna Casey said.
“This funding program enables us to leverage an extremely modest investment from the government into more than $8 million of essential foods for distribution to 2600 charities around the country.”
The program sees food manufacturers produce food using spare production capacity, while suppliers donate or subsidise ingredients, packaging and delivery…
In February Foodbank asked the government for $10.5 million over three years…
Despite growing demand, Ms Casey said government funding had gone down from $1.5 million a year three years ago, to $427,000 a year from January 2019.
This is scrooge-like penny pinching from the Morrison Government, and comes at the same time as it has legislated to provide billions of dollars of tax relief to high income earners, as well as defends billions of dollars in tax subsidies to speculative property investors.
