[1] Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for digital literacy to become as important as reading and writing as the country’s economy is gearing up for a radical digital shift.
[2] He launched the Australian Computer Society’s ‘Australia’s Digital Pulse’ report in Canberra on Tuesday, and said that digital skills should be the new kind of national literacies.
[3] The comments follow the recent parliamentary debate between Labor and the Coalition as to whether coding should be taught in every primary and secondary school in Australia.