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Giddings axes breakfast for children Sunday, 10 April 2011 10:17 |  Written by Jacquie |  | 
Jacquie Petrusma MP " I want to see a Tasmania where no child goes hungry ." - David Bartlett, media release, 19/10/2009. In shades of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke's infamous no child shall live in poverty statement, Premier Lara Giddings has pulled the rug from beneath Tasmanian children and former Premier David Bartlett's no child goes hungry promise. Tasmania's most disadvantaged children are now paying the price of Labor and the Greens' budget mismanagement with news that round two of the Food Security Fund has been axed. The Food Security Fund was announced with much fanfare by then Premier David Bartlett in October 2009 as part of the Government's response to Professor David Adams' Social Inclusion Strategy. Announcing the fund, Mr Bartlett said: I want to see a Tasmania where no child goes hungry. We know that good nutrition enables a child to concentrate, learn and succeed. School-based breakfast programs and healthy eating initiatives will be supported under the Food Security Fund. I also want to see a Tasmania where families doing it tough can get affordable nutritional food. This will be the purpose of the Tasmanian Food Security Council to ensure this happens. With revelations that the second round of this fund (some $270,000) has been re-prioritised by new Premier Lara Giddings as a result of Labor-Green budget mismanagement, Tasmanians are entitled to ask: what is a higher priority than food for our children? That the Labor-Green Government would stoop so low as to axe this funding shows just how out of control the budget situation is, due to their mismanagement. It also shows that no-one, not even our most vulnerable children, are immune from the consequences of Labor and the Greens' budget mismanagement. For further information or comment please call Laura Oldfield - 0459 801 137
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