Falling School Standards Cost Billions By Matt Wade

The article ‘Falling school standards costs billions’ published by Matt Wade uses the topic of declining education in Australia to demonstrate how it is “slashing billions” from Australia’s economic wellbeing. The Sydney Morning Herald; a newspaper that is national, but mainly caters for people who live in Sydney, writes articles from various genres.

This formal article uses a variety of statistics “Australia’s reading scores dropped from 512 to 503 between 2012 and 2015” and “the deterioration has sliced $15.2 billion from Australia’s welling since 2012” to make sure that the readers know that the article has come from a reliable source. The statistics is where the bias comes in, so when the author includes “if Australia’s PISA reading result had converged with Canada’s since in that period instead of falling by more than 20 points, our wellbeing would be $89.6 billion higher” this will make the readers think that Australia’s education system

The article also introduces Australian health wellbeing issues such as obesity and mental illness. Obesity in Australia costed Australia’s collective wellbeing $124 billion, and untreated mental illness was $206 billion annually. Even through the index of health component welcomes longer life expectancy and preventable hospitalizations to Australia, these positive health breakthroughs are outweighed by obesity and untreated mental illness costs slashing billions from Australia’s economy. With this component of ethics included into the article, Matt Wade uses this bias as a way of making Australian readers believe that billions are being spent on personal health issues that don’t cater to everyone, and health issues that shouldn’t cost billions when the fact is that the Australia economy should be using billions on common health