Commentary Bill Bryson, in his iconic travelogue about the United Kingdom, Notes from a Small Island, observes that nearly all tourist leaflets are “depressingly illiterate, particularly with regard to punctuation.” He sarcastically promises that “if I see one more tourist leaflet that says ‘Englands Best’ or ‘Britains Largest’ I will go and torch the place.”…

A federal parliamentary inquiry has been launched in a bid to address the intergenerational cycle of poor adult literacy in Australia. Imagine being unable to read a book to your children, fill out important forms or decipher ingredient labels on food or medicine. That’s an unacceptable reality for a shocking amount of Australian adults, literacy…