Reading, writing and … disinformation: should schoolchildren be taught media literacy like maths?

Australia lags among advanced democracies in educating young people on media literacy, an expert says. Photograph: Oksana Kuzmina/Alamy

Beneath an old Queenslander on the south side of the Brisbane River, beside a garage with a hand-painted sign that reads “recording” and above a computer in a cluttered spare room, is a Post-it note.

“Sugar-coated broccoli,” it reads.