Inflation and inadequate welfare fuelling Australia’s food insecurity crisis, Foodbank finds

Without help, one single mother feared she’d have to live off ‘toast and two-minute noodles’. Photograph: MirageC/Getty Images

The cost-of-living crisis and inadequate welfare payments are fuelling a rise in food insecurity in Australian households, according to a new report.

The charity Foodbank’s annual Hunger Report, to be released on Monday for Anti Poverty Week, surveyed more than 4,000 Australian adults, finding the problem extended beyond those on fixed incomes and was affecting many people in work.