Addi Road’s Emergency Food Preparedness and Response Centre

by Mark Mordue | Mar 27, 2020

Addison Road Community Organisation in Marrickville is responding to the COVID-19 crisis by extending its food security program and Food Pantry with a new Emergency Food Preparedness and Response Centre. The Gumbramorra Hall, has been re-purposed as a production and...

It took this virus to expose our meanest streak – the pitiful Newstart allowance

by Mark Mordue | Mar 26, 2020

A report from behind the frontlines of unemployment and poverty in Australia, where Mark Mordue responds to a normal day at Addison Road Community Organisation’s Food Pantry, our food rescue and food security low-cost supermarket for people in need. Article...

Food Pantry Banjo Ballad #1

by Mark Mordue | Mar 24, 2020

Jo Rae has turned up outside Addison Road Community Organisation’s Food Pantry with her banjo in tow and a small amplifier. She has a clutch of folk songs to play about workers’ struggles and sufferings from another time and place. Not to mention some tales of love...

Addi Road’s Emergency Food Hampers

by Mark Mordue | Mar 24, 2020

At this time of increased food insecurity, please be mindful of the message from one of our partners, Foodbank: “We encourage all our agency partners to remember that every item provided to a member of the general public who has the means to purchase that...

A Bag Full of Peaches

by Mark Mordue | Mar 23, 2020

Kim Johnston is the new director the Addison Road Early Learning Centre. She only started in the job last November, but can safely say, “It’s been really challenging times. Bushfires, floods, and now this.” As much as these things can have an impact on the children...