Food relief is not the answer. Food insecurity in Australia related to income and housing.

12 January 2026

I’ve been reading about food insecurity in Australia. It’s grim reading.  In this article I look at what recent studies say about its extent, its causes, a recent Inquiry into it and some recommendations for addressing it.

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.