Area in graphs

This is one type of a misleading graph.

Bar graph of average weekly Australian spending.

What is the title of the graph?
What is being represented on the horizontal axis?
What is being represented vertically?
In a bar graph the area of a bar is proportional to the quantity represented in the bar, so how is this graph misleading?
What percentage of the weekly spending is spent on transport?
What percentage of the amount spent on transport would the area shown on the graph appear to represent?
Why do you think the reporter produced this plot?
Explain why we cannot find a median for this data set.

Year 6: Interpret secondary data presented in digital media and elsewhere