PAY DAY
Nicole Jackson is a young professional woman who rents her apartment in the inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe and works at the local Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre, a job she finds stimulating and satisfying. In the past 18 months, however, she has noticed one topic dominating the conversation whenever she catches up with her friends. She calls it ‘food insecurity’.
“Money is the number one thing that worries me and that’s the conversation I have with all my female friends. And we still make less than our male counterparts,” the 35-year-old says. “A lot of my friends are talking about the fact they can’t afford to eat as healthily as they would like and are making bad food choices, not because they want to, but because a $5 Domino’s pizza is cheaper. I call
