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Edria Murray Staff Editor 30th May 2005 |
In response to ashley: The literacy rate for Australia is 100%. Literacy, however, is really a continuum from illiterate through low literacy to high literacy. The International Adult literacy survey (1998) of OECD countries concluded that 44.8% of Australian adults had a low level of literacy. In this study, a low level of literacy represents a skill level lower than that required for successful completion of secondary education. These people may have difficulty comparing data, understanding data which is not clearly laid out and following complex instructions. Low literacy can affect the training and employment options available to the person, their financial status and their ability to access services such as health and welfare assistance. |
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Edria Murray Staff Editor 30th May 2005 |
In response to ashley: The literacy rate for Australia is 100%. Literacy, however, is really a continuum from illiterate through low literacy to high literacy. The International Adult literacy survey (1998) of OECD countries concluded that 44.8% of Australian adults had a low level of literacy. In this study, a low level of literacy represents a skill level lower than that required for successful completion of secondary education. These people may have difficulty comparing data, understanding data which is not clearly laid out and following complex instructions. Low literacy can affect the training and employment options available to the person, their financial status and their ability to access services such as health and welfare assistance. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 31st May 2005 |
According to OECD statistics, 17.4 percent of Australians are at a high rate of literacy, 55.2 percent have a moderate level of literacy, and 44.8 are at a low literacy level. Almost 50 percent of Australian women are at least a moderate literacy level, while the moderate literacy rate for men is 52.2 percent. The overall literacy rate in Australia is pegged at 100 percent, as is the literacy rate for men and women. The literacy rate is defined as the number of people aged 15 and over who can read and write. |
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Katman 5th July 2005 |
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics the population of Australia, as at the 5 July 2005 time being 22:38, is estimated to be 20 354 337 people. That is assuming one birth occurs every 2 minutes and 4 seconds and one death occurs every 3 minutes and 53 seconds. |
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Alex Flanagan 21st November 2005 |
You should have some place where you type a place or object like the Great Dividing Range and it will give you the absolute location.(longitude and latitude)of the place. |
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Bret Miller (Ohio) 27th November 2006 |
Does anyone know about any social taboo's? I'm working on a project and it has been very difficult for me to find any. |
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Gus (Sydney) 14th October 2007 |
Maralt, I find it amazing that you are Australian or live in Australia and believe that Sydney is the capital. Canberra is the capital of Australia and it is located in the Australian Capital Territory or ACT. It became the capital because of a dispute between Sydney and Melbourne, who were both vying for that position. After Federation in 1901, a number of locations were considered as the sites for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra was chosen in 1908, because it lay between Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is the capital of the state of New South Wales and not Australia. |
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