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bananasaust.bsky.social
Beautifully done 🤣
January 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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True. This gish-gallop of horrors is deliberate, and their sheer scale, volume, and rapidity ae squarely aimed at overwhelming our capacity to speak out against those horrors with any measure of effectiveness.
January 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
bananasaust.bsky.social
That's great!
January 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Food banks are just a more expensive way to get food that isn’t necessarily suitable to poor people: Prove me wrong
TFIF, am I right? And that the pollies have headed home for the summer break after a chaotic final week, and maybe we’ll get some respite from their pontificating until that election is calle…
phonakins.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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phonakins.com
NO YOU DON'T NEED MORE FUNDING PEOPLE NEED MORE MONEY TO LIVE OFF

#RAISETHERATE
‘Food insecurity crisis’ The founder of food rescue group OzHarvest, Ronni Kahn, said even people with jobs and mortgages were turning to the organisation because they could no longer afford to buy life’s essentials. “It’s a new demographic for us,” she said. “We’re seeing nurses, we’re seeing teachers, we are seeing people who’ve got jobs and who cannot make ends meet. Female worker stocking shelves Shopping at Australian food charities can be more expensive than supermarkets. What’s gone wrong? Read more “State and federal governments absolutely need to recognise that there is a food insecurity crisis, and they have to increase funding to food relief organisations like us so that we can help feed more people.” Kahn said fresh produce was in high demand, because it had become so expensive, while eggs can be hard to come by. “We might just put eggs into little cartons of four or six, and try to match need with demand. But again, we certainly don’t have eggs every day.”
January 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM