Ryan Bridge: Only hungry children should be fed by the State

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 2, 2026 · 2m · transcript

The Government's looking to "move on" from free school lunches for every kid in a poor school.

David Seymour told me this week they're looking at making changes, potentially tightening things up.

At present, if your kid's school is signed up, your kid automatically gets a lunch. The only way to stop that is to actually contact the school and opt out on an individual basis.

I reckon they'll change this so parents will have to 'opt in'.

This makes much more sense.

If it's true that half the lunches aren't being eaten, then why waste that resource? It's taxpayer resource.

If the food was good…