And yet you claim Labor - and Libs (!) - are socialists, aka "cultural Marxists" according to you.
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I did because they are marginally better at reducing inequality than the Libs; eg they changed the 'tax 3' tax cuts, and superannuation rules, in favour of lower income earners; but they are equally wedded to Thatcher's "other peoples' money" delusion, which is why Labor can't fix entrenched poverty as reported by the Salvos, because none of us wants to pay higher taxes.
Salvos warn 20 per cent of Aussies eating from bins in Labor’s ‘new
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By cairns news
May 27, 2026
91% skipping meals, 60% eating expired food and 1 in 5 eating from bins
New Salvos Report exposes Cost-of-Living Emergency for Australia’s Poorest
The Salvation Army today issued an urgent warning that Australia’s cost-of-living crisis is spiralling into an emergency for the nation’s most marginalised people, with a new report revealing nearly one in five (19%) people surveyed saying they had eaten from bins and three in five (60%) saying they had eaten expired or spoiled food in the past 12 months.
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Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese not worried about Labor’s budget carnage and wasteful spending on overseas countries and costly, inefficient renewable power
The new report surveyed 4,400 Australians seeking emergency relief support from The Salvation Army and revealed widespread food insecurity and severe financial distress, with 91% saying they skipped meals in the past 12 months and almost one third (32%) saying this happened daily.
The report also found one third (35%) said they survived on only one meal a day and 67% said they watered down food or drinks to make them last longer.
One community member who received support from The Salvation Army said, “We starve, it’s that simple. We drink water because it fills us up. We walk a bit to take our minds off this horrible life we are in, and we beg whoever we can for help.”
Another community member simply said they “go without food, find thrown-out food, look in bins” in order to survive.
Children are increasingly bearing the brunt of the crisis, with 35% of parents saying their children had gone to school hungry and almost 6 in 10 (59%) households with school-aged children saying kids had missed school because families could not afford transport costs in the past 12 months.