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The issue has begun to be addressed by the establishment of the new Australian Curriculum by the Rudd government , it was implemented in 2013.
The effect of this won't show up in stats based before this time (as in the article). The article only shows where the previous road led and confirms that change was needed.
Science, along with the forgotten subjects history and geography are back as main stream subjects that start in primary school.
My youngest daughter is in Year 7 and loves science, as do most of the kids, they are naturally inquisitive. The idea is to give them a taste young, get them thinking, inquiring and solving problems earlier. Then they will only be expanding their skill set when they hit high school and pick up chem, physics and biology.
At the senior level they need to limit the subject choices, it's too easy for students to walk away from main stream subjects and select easier options. There's multiple levels of Maths in High School, it's easy to side step the Advanced Maths and take up a simpler Maths level and some other subject filler ... such as cake decorating.
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