The latest addition to the school curriculum will have kids learning about money management

The Education Minister's making financial literacy a compulsory topic -- for years one to 10.

Several financial organisations, banks and charities have partnered with the Government to deliver lessons on investment and taxes.

Erica Stanford says 84-percent of adults never received financial literacy training and parents have been calling for it for a long time.

She says it's intergenerational and schools will need play a part.