参考答案：在整个澳大利亚，义务教育的年龄为6到15岁。然而，大多数孩子上学比法定的年龄要早些。全国有统一的学校教育规划，旨在提高学生对澳大利亚人口多文化背景的认识，帮助少数民族保护他们的语言和文化。母语为非英语的学生得到帮助以提高其英语水平，从而增强他们平等接受教育和参与社会的机会。
在整个教育体系中还包括函授课程，这主要是面向那些因疾病、残疾或住得偏远而无法上学的人群。此外还有广播学校，通过双向无线电网络为边远地区的学生提供课堂教学。在有些州，那些因居住地离中学太远而无法每天回家的学生可住在政府提供资助或补贴的青年旅馆。在智力、身体、情感、社交或学习上有缺陷的儿童可以得到专门的教育服务。

解析：[听力原文]
Throughout Australia, schooling is compulsory between the age of six and fifteen years. However, most children begin school earlier than the law requires. There is a nationwide school program designed to increase students’ sensitivity to the population’s multicultural background and to help ethnic communities maintain their languages and cultures. Students from non-English speaking backgrounds are helped to develop their English to enhance their equality of opportunity in education and participation in society.
Included in the entire system are the correspondence courses for students prevented by illness, disability or residential isolation from attending schools. There are also schools of the air, which use two-way radio networks to provide classroom experience to students in isolated places. In some states, children living too far from a secondary school to travel daily may live in government funded or subsidized hostels. Children with intellectual, physical, emotional, social or learning disabilities are provided with special educational services.