Paul Clitheroe

And that does include the school curriculum.

I don't think even probably some of your more skilful money listeners may be aware, but financial literacy, despite what you'll see in the media occasionally, it is embedded in the school curriculum.

The current curriculum is Curriculum 9.

and it's embedded, and it's embedded across maths.

We've also got social sciences and humanities.

What the listeners may not know, though, is that it is not separate subject matter.

Now, I have sympathy for this, James.

Our school curriculum is incredibly crowded, and teachers often tell me they feel as though they're kind of expected to be parents these days.

They're expected to do environmental stuff and money stuff.

Look,

There's all sorts of issues going on with online internet bullying.

There's a whole world out there.

Teachers are really under pressure.

And there's also about 320,000 primary and secondary school teachers.

So what's happening at the moment is that, sure, we've got wonderful programs like Extras Talk Money, which some 540,000 kids have had a chance to be impacted by the sensible ideas in there.

But in the classroom...

We've really got some schools, some principals have really said, this is, we need to be doing this.

And we see it's embedded in the curriculum, but they're actively saying to their teachers, look, it is, we need to be teaching this stuff in maths.

And so they're going to Extra for resources.

They're going to ASIC's wonderful money website for resources.