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conducted by the OECD, indicates that while
Australian students scored an average of
514 in reading literacy, maths and science,
students from OECD countries scored only
497.
The August, 2014 survey carried out by the
Economist Intelligence Unit on the liveability
ranking of cities has Melbourne at the top for
the fourth year in a row, with Adelaide (ranked
at 5), Sydney (7) and Perth (9) making it to the
list of the 10 best cities to live in the world.
Victoria, the state in which Melbourne is located,
can lay claim to be the information and commu-
nication technologies hub of Australia. It has over
91,000 people employed in the ICT industry, which
is approximately a third of the total employment in
this sector. The ICT companies have a turnover of
US$34 billion of which US$2.5 billion is from over-
seas. More than half of the top 30 technology com-
panies in Australia have their headquarters in Mel-
bourne.
World Bank Doing
Business 2015 sur-
vey
Australia has ranked 10th amongst 189 countries in
the ease of doing business survey conducted by the
World Bank.
The survey is a yearly exercise which analyses vari-