1 in 8 households don’t have the money to buy enough food
- Written by Katherine Kent, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Wollongong
Around one in eight (1.3 million) Australian households experienced food insecurity in 2023. This means they didn’t always have enough money to buy the amount or quality of food they needed for an active and healthy life.
The data, released on Friday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), show food insecurity is now a mainstream public...