Children going hungry, missing school amid Australia's 'perfect storm' cost-of-living crisis
ABCResearchers and frontline charities are seeing a growing number of Australian children going hungry and missing school, as the twin pressures of a cost-of-living crisis and housing shortages push families to the brink. More and more children suffering Australian National University child poverty researcher Sharon Bessell has been interviewing children across Australia to find out how rising costs of living and housing insecurity are affecting them. She said one child interviewed for her research, told her when he attended community food assistance programs with his mother, "It's like pain is in the air and devastation is everywhere". "We need as a community to give our governments licence to say no child should be living in a car, no child should be going to bed hungry, because we can fix these problems in a wealthy country," Professor Bessell said.
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