Episode Synopsis "Little lunch, big impact — Making a meal of school lunches"

The food we eat at school matters. Some Australian children get too much of the wrong thing, while others get not much of anything at all. In these early years, the food habits of a lifetime are being set, and study after study shows the link between nutrition, attention and learning. If almost every other high-income country in the world is providing free or subsidised lunches for school-aged children, why is Australia an outlier?

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