It's better to have sound economic and social policy that doesn't create poverty in the first place.
Meals are all very well but you have a colossal proportion of people who cannot get affordable housing.
Menzies would be rolling in his grave. He understood the need for expenditure on housing, infrastructure and welfare.
Gas and electricity prices are astronomical. Ditto Food prices for anything but junk food.
This mob are all about charitable gestures, and nothing meaningful for the battler.