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Sky News Australia; 30 April, 2026
A major charity report has revealed Australians are being left without basic household essentials for years after disasters, as demand for support reaches record levels.
Australian families are taking longer to recover from disasters and financial shocks, with new research showing growing shortages of essentials and rising pressure on charities.
The findings come from the Good360 Australia Bridging the Recovery Gap report, released ahead of its launch this week with retail partner Harvey Norman.
The study surveyed nearly 300 charities nationwide and found recovery from disaster is increasingly prolonged, uneven and in some cases never fully achieved.
According to the research, 62 per cent of charities say most families either take more than two years to recover from a crisis or never recover fully at all.
The report also highlights a surge in demand for donated goods, driven by ongoing cost-of-living pressures and increasingly frequent natural disasters.
“Demand for donated essential goods has never been higher, and charities are telling us that more people are doing it tough and reaching out for help than ever before,” the report states.
Read the full article on Sky News Australia.
Read the ‘Bridging the Recovery Gap’ report here.
