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Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Supermarket Prices
Sustain: The Australian Food Network works for the transition to a food system that supports flourishing communities, individuals, and ecosystems. We give people, councils, governments, and organisations the tools they need to help them become empowered food citizens, supporting healthy communities, people, and ecosystems. Through this work, we have explored the role that major supermarket…
Role of Local Government in Food Policy & Governance
This article is republished with permission from Circles of Food. Please click here to view the original. Food Systems and the Role of Local Government In 2017 Sustain distributed the final Local Government Food Governance and Policy position paper to all 79 municipalities in Victoria. You can download the position paper here: FOOD SYSTEMS AND…
Towards a Healthy, Regenerative and Equitable Food System in Victoria: A Consensus Statement
Click here to read the Consensus Statement here. Shortly after the first lockdown of 2020 commenced, VicHealth convened a Food Security and Food Systems Working Group, with diverse representation from local and state government, community food organisations, academia, philanthropy and the large foodbanks. We all remember the unprecedented social and economic impacts of the public…
Sustain’s submission to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Food Security in Australia
On 26 October 2022, the House Standing Committee on Agriculture commenced an inquiry into food security in Australia. The Committee invited interested persons and organisations to make a submission addressing the terms of reference by Friday, 9 December 2022. Sustain made a submission to this inquiry; if you would like to read it, we have made…
Sustain’s submission to the draft version of the National Preventive Health Strategy
Dietary-related ill-health and mental illness cost Australia around $200 bn every year. As we’ve said in the National Pandemic Gardening Survey report, for a fraction of this cost we could improve access to edible gardens and urban food production and vastly impact the state of preventative health. The Department of Health is currently seeking the…
‘Grocery Price Fury’ on The Project
“Grocery Price Fury”. That’s how The Project covered the cost-of-living crisis this election. They’re not wrong. In our like-for-like comparison of groceries from a supermarket and local Melbourne grocer Gasko’s, we payed $25 less at the locally-owned shop. In this segment the Project team fact check our findings and learn how the supermarkets use choice…