As the cost-of-living crisis worsens, more people across Australia are going without enough food At the doorway to Olinda Hall, in a mountainside community in the Yarra Ranges an hour east of Melbourne, a tall woman is greeted by name as she enters. She speaks for a few minutes to the volunteers in face masks and yellow fluoro vests, before being handed a box of food. Bread, green beans, pre-packaged salad mix, a tomato, lemons, oranges, a tin of instant coffee. It's early February. A laugh rings out into the wooden beams of the hall, news is exchanged and pleasantries made before the woman departs.

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