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This paper documents the personal experiences of four women on the topic of learning and teaching literacy in Australia today. Three of the women describe the hardships of coping with their personal lives as well as learning to read and coping with technology. The last woman's experience is that of a teacher and her frustrations in teaching literacy in today's environment. She suggests that current funding for professional development goes towards the checking of standards rather than into workshops and seminars on theory and practice. The contents of the paper are: Abstract; Framing this paper; The learners; The teachers; Conclusion and references.