If Language Tells Us Who We Are, Then Who Am I?
Inspired by my father and to honour the traditions of our people, I have learned more of…
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Tears, Song and History as the Lower House Welcomes Linda Burney as its First Aboriginal Woman
They don’t often sing songs from the public gallery in the nation’s Parliament; speakers don’t usually wear…
Waking Our Sleeping Indigenous Languages: ‘We’re In The Midst of a Resurgence’
While the vast number of Indigenous languages are considered endangered, there are many that have a good…
New Research Suggets Cell Phones Are Helping Save Endangered Languages
Texting and emailing may actually be helping to save endangers languages, rather than contributing to their demise,…
Fellowship To Support Preservation of Audiovisual Indigenous Heritage
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations in remote Australia can now apply to receive support and be…
When a Word Can Mean So Much: The Language of Identity
A project to revive near-extinct traditional languages and teach them at primary school is getting remarkable results…
Push to Revive Indigenous Languages at School
MANY Australians have never met an Aboriginal and are probably not aware that they use indigenous words…
Do You Know a Bunji From a Boorie? Meet Our Dictionary’s New Indigenous Words
A new edition of the Australian National Dictionary has just been published. It contains 16,000 words and…