{"id":489,"date":"2018-11-13T03:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=489"},"modified":"2018-11-13T03:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:09:34","slug":"labor-will-reverse-morrisons-cut-to-foodbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/labor-will-reverse-morrisons-cut-to-foodbank\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR WILL REVERSE MORRISON\u2019S CUT TO FOODBANK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Shorten Labor Government will reverse Scott Morrison\u2019s $323,000 cut to Foodbank.<br \/>\nFoodbank is a food relief organisation that puts food on the table for hundreds of thousands of Australians in need \u2013 many of them children.<br \/>\nThe organisation provides 67 million meals a year to charities across the country, as well as more than 1,750 schools. They are Australia\u2019s largest food provider to schools for breakfast programs.<br \/>\nFoodbank does an extraordinary job partnering with the food and grocery industry to recover excess or unsaleable products that can be delivered to Australians in need. They work hard to distribute food and groceries with a value of more than $200 million.<br \/>\nThey do not need much support from government, nor do they ask for much.<br \/>\nHowever, they rely on a relatively small amount of funding from the federal government to ensure there are no gaps in their supply of essential food items each day.<br \/>\nThe Liberals\u2019 cut puts Foodbank\u2019s\u00a0<em>Key Staples Program<\/em>\u00a0at risk, which helps provide more than $8 million worth of essential food items for Australians.<br \/>\nThis cut comes just six weeks from Christmas, and will be delivered during the holiday period \u2013 a difficult time for many vulnerable families.<br \/>\nThe Government\u2019s cut will have a major impact on Foodbank\u2019s supplies, and risks compromising their ability to distribute emergency food relief during natural disasters.<br \/>\nIt could mean that charities have to cut the number of meals they provide each day, vulnerable families miss out on groceries they rely on, and kids miss out on breakfast at school.<br \/>\nThis is all about priorities. The Liberals care more about a tax giveaway to the big banks than helping Australians in need.<br \/>\nLabor urges Scott Morrison to acknowledge his government has made a big mistake and reverse this decision. This is not an issue to be stubborn and arrogant about.<br \/>\nIf Mr Morrison refuses to reverse his cut, a Shorten Labor Government will.<br \/>\nLabor will make sure our charities have the resources they need to support our fellow Australians, especially children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Shorten Labor Government will reverse Scott Morrison\u2019s $323,000 cut to Foodbank. Foodbank is a food relief organisation that puts food on the table for hundreds of thousands of Australians in need \u2013 many of them children. The organisation provides 67 million meals a year to charities across the country, as well as more than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/labor-will-reverse-morrisons-cut-to-foodbank\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR WILL REVERSE MORRISON\u2019S CUT TO FOODBANK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}