Yesterday, we attacked the Morrison Government’s plan to halve funding to charity Foodbank, which provides meals to 710,000 needy Australians.
Thankfully we can today report that the community backlash has forced the Coalition to backflip:
The National Farmers’ Federation, the community sector and Labor yesterday slammed the Government’s plans to slash Foodbank’s funding in half from January.
“I have listened and decided to increase the food relief budget by $1.5 million over the next 4.5 years and have asked the Minister to place more focus on relief in drought-affected areas,” Mr Morrison posted on Twitter…
Foodbank chief executive Brianna Casey said the backdown was a “massive relief” after its services had been put at risk.
“As a sector, we are trying to feed more than 4 million Australians, who at some point are struggling with food insecurity,” she said.
Good news. The proposed funding cut was some of the worst scrooge-like penny pinching I have seen.
