Salvos declare cost-of-living emergency following survey findings

Salvos declare cost-of-living emergency following survey findings

The Salvation Army has issued an urgent warning that Australia’s cost-of-living crisis is spiralling into an emergency after a survey it conducted found nearly one in five people had eaten from bins. The Salvos surveyed 4400 people accessing its emergency food relief support with the findings contained in the Red Shield Report 2026 released on 27 May. Along with 19 per cent of respondents saying they’d eaten food from rubbish bins, 60 per cent r…