{"id":11078,"date":"2019-05-08T05:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/2019\/05\/08\/double-food-relief-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:42:07","slug":"double-food-relief-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/double-food-relief-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Foodbank welcomes Labor\u2019s commitment to helping hungry Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><h1>Foodbank welcomes Labor\u2019s commitment to helping hungry Australians<\/h1>\n<p><strong>8 May 2019<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cFoodbank welcomes today\u2019s commitment from Labor to double funding for food relief organisations\u201d Foodbank Australia CEO Brianna Casey said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made a case to all parties to deliver a National Food Security Strategy with significant funding to support it, to help address Australia\u2019s food insecurity crisis,\u201d she explained. \u201cWe look forward to working with the incoming government to ensure that vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians have reliable access to sufficient safe and nutritious food\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Foodbank\u2019s case for a National Food Security Strategy can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Case-for-National-Food-Security-Strategy-2019.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and its policy and funding priorities ahead of the federal election can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-Funding-Policy-Priorities-2019-1.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foodbank welcomes Labor\u2019s commitment to helping hungry Australians 8 May 2019 \u2013 \u201cFoodbank welcomes today\u2019s commitment from Labor to double funding for food relief organisations\u201d Foodbank Australia CEO Brianna Casey said today. \u201cWe have made a case to all parties to deliver a National Food Security Strategy with significant funding to support it, to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,235,236],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-11078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aus","category-media-releases","category-news","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"formatted_date":"May 8, 2019","raw_html":"<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><h1>Foodbank welcomes Labor\u2019s commitment to helping hungry Australians<\/h1>\n<p><strong>8 May 2019<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cFoodbank welcomes today\u2019s commitment from Labor to double funding for food relief organisations\u201d Foodbank Australia CEO Brianna Casey said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made a case to all parties to deliver a National Food Security Strategy with significant funding to support it, to help address Australia\u2019s food insecurity crisis,\u201d she explained. \u201cWe look forward to working with the incoming government to ensure that vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians have reliable access to sufficient safe and nutritious food\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Foodbank\u2019s case for a National Food Security Strategy can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Case-for-National-Food-Security-Strategy-2019.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and its policy and funding priorities ahead of the federal election can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-Funding-Policy-Priorities-2019-1.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>","ACF":false,"featured_image_url":"","author_name":"alisha@foodbank.org.au","spinnr_header":"default_spinnr_header","spinnr_mobile_menu":"default_spinnr_mobile_menu","spinnr_footer":"default_spinnr_footer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15110,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions\/15110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}