“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 and pricing tricks to confuse customers into paying more for food.
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Daily headlines reportage on the cost-of-living crisis, rising food insecurity, climate change fallout affecting fresh food production and transportation, are inescapable. They reflect the sign of the times, and what is to come. It’s very timely that the Victorian parliament is conducting two Inquiries into food security in 2024: On Tuesday 9th April we were delighted…
Costa Georgiadis, Lou Ridsdale and Nick Rose had a chance to go beyond soundbites to cover the big picture food system crisis points and inspiring stories of local and personal action. This was a great example of how to use multiple perspectives to tie a food-system story together and the role of tangible examples (like Costa’s farm-school-refugee community…
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…
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…
The natural resources of peri-urban land – or rural landscapes adjoining cities – matter. Cities that protect their peri-urban areas are most likely to survive inevitable future crises. Climate change, political upheaval and increasing global demand for food will increase the risks from fuel supply interruptions, crop failures, unstable weather, economic instability, health crises and…
For the past 12 months, Sustain has been working with Trust for Nature, Ethical Fields, Young Farmers Connect and Cassinia Environmental on a collaborative project to develop models to tackle three big food system issues. First, how do we protect our remaining farmland, especially in the peri-urban context close to our major cities? This is…