Based on recent ABS stats: “47 per cent of Queenslanders cannot read newspapers follow a recipe make sense of timetables or understand instructions on a medicine bottle.”
I assumed it was 4.7 per cent and they’d missed out the decimal point. Wrong. It is 47 per cent. (And non-Queenslanders don’t go thinking things are much better where you are.)
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/reading-ambassadors-fail-the-basic-test-20120905-25ef9.html#ixzz2IIkNiUZy