I have many relatives and friends who have died from tobacco related illnesses. We should all care about this. Tobacco is different even from other ‘vices’ (including alcohol) in that it has no health benefit even at low doses. Selling tobacco with its known problems is a ‘dangerous act that knowingly puts the health of others at risk’. These are two important manslaughter criteria. Is the absence of ‘intent to kill’ enough to exclude it?

Political rhetoric seldom translates easily into discernible difference at the individual level. When Malcolm Turnbull proposes an increasingly ‘agile’ Australia, what real difference will this occasion in our 21st-century, day-to-day lives?

It’s a global issue and no country has found a workable answer.

Because this is one of the root environmental problems we face. My grandmother was born into a world with 75% fewer people and this seemingly unstoppable growth undermines all of the good we do. If we halve consumption and double the world’s population, we have achieved nothing, but forced sterilisation is obviously completely unacceptable, as is the total freedom to have 9 children if you feel like it. You should care because at the moment the future does not look like now with more electric cars; you should more picture 40m people in rags foraging in a gravel car park the size South Australia for 27 potatotes.

There is so much to consider – finding appropriate continental/ethnic/gender balance, avoiding anyone who may upset a particular group…… Can anyone come up with even two people to agree upon?

For Cheryl Strayed. Getting started might be an impulse. From there to the finish requires something else.

Because this is cradle of all the other issues.

It is about the future of ours and generations after.

Is it about anything beyond entitlement?

Are we doing so much damage to ourselves and others that a forced expiry date may be a good thing? Are we mature enough to put a doctored nuclear holocaust or global species-wide euthanasia to a vote, or simply discuss?

We often think about beauty in terms of gender norms, but not often in relation to class. When we try to be beautiful, are we trying to shed any references to working class dom? Why do we describe poor people as “rough”? Are rich people genetically more likely to come out beautiful?