School lunches
"While families who send their children to private schools can be compelled to pay for a lunch service, public schools do not have this power. If a fee for lunch service is made mandatory in the public system, it will be the children from the most disadvantaged of families, who have the greatest need for plentiful, nutritious food, who will be excluded from the program. Any discussion of the provision of school lunches needs to address these issues of access and equity."
Kaylene Henry

How many?
"I ask The Conversation to lead the way for other media in including a nation’s population in stories mentioning other countries. For instance, the article on the prime minister's visit to Timor-Leste would have been strengthened by noting the population of Timor-Leste (approximately 1.4 million) and also the population of the other countries we have recently signed security agreements with. Not to mention Greenland (56,000) and Denmark (6 million) relative to the United States (348 million) and Canada (40 million)."
Rhonda Daniels, Sutherland NSW

Why we should legalise marijuana: a poem
"All this negative talk about weed is old,
the war on weed hasn't stopped it from being sold.
Make it just like cigarettes and beer,
let your voices be hear[d],
make it loud and clear.
We want legalisation
Certainly taxation.
Tell me,
do you agree?
That it's time that they legalise weed?"
Te Bigley
Ed: Unfortunately, we did have to edit for brevity; the deep cut was 117 lines long.

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