Overview
- Foodbank’s latest report finds one in five households skipped meals or went days without eating in the past year.
- Renters were heavily affected, with about half reporting food insecurity, and rates were even higher for single-parent and disability-affected households.
- Australia discards an estimated 7.6 million tonnes of food annually, much of it edible, with an economic cost of about $36.6 billion.
- The charity backs a National Food Donation Tax Incentive first proposed in 2024, after a Senate committee raised concerns that an uncapped version could advantage large supermarkets.
- Proposed safeguards include caps on claims and limiting eligibility to businesses under roughly $50 million in turnover, with advocates saying the policy could enable about 100 million meals and bolster the 2030 food‑waste goal.