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The Bureau of Statistics has released its annual MAP report (Measures of Australia's Progress). Apparently:

We're getting healthier
We're better educated
We're comfortable at home
More of us are working - and for longer
We help each other
We're more egalitarian

(Of course, I say 'we', but not actually me, I'm an Irishman).

If I can draw your attention the second in the above list - better educated. The claim is that 59 percent of 'us' now hold an after-school qualification such as a diploma/degree etc, compared with 48 percent in 1995.

Notwithstanding that one can almost achieve a diploma in 'sitting on your arse on the sofa', and various other trivial past-times, the important point that's been conveniently forgotten is the lowering of pass marks required to achieve such a diploma.

And letting loose on society a generation of sub-educated idiots, some of whom pass their low standards onto the young, therefore perpetuating the rot.

And as far as the first on the list - getting healthier? I...don't...think so, Mr Bureau. Sixty percent of the Australian population (70 male, 50-female) are classed as obese.