Charities do not have access to the quantities of foods and essentials they need, due to new supermarket restrictions. 9News
FAMS estimates one-in-five children goes hungry in Australia. There are concerns this number could soar.
However, charities won't get relief in-store from Coles, with the supermarket giant increasing supply to Foodbank and SecondBite organisers swamped trying to help 3800 groups.
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