‘Without them I’d be starving’: cost-of-living crisis forcing more Australians than ever to rely on food banks

Troy Irving collects his weekly groceries from a Foodbank Australia van in Hoppers Crossing. ‘A job isn’t a shield against the cost-of-living crisis,’ says Foodbank’s manager Sarah Pennell. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

Grace Camilleri promises she’s not complaining.

The pensioner says she is grateful: she owns her own home in Hoppers Crossing in Melbourne and has three beautiful grandchildren who live with her and their mother. There is laughter in the house.