Lack of English in remote communites: crisis or win for local language?

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New census data shows that around forty per cent of kids in some indigenous communities in remote South Australia do not speak English well, or don’t speak English at all. But one expert has warned against seeing this as a crisis or as a deficiency among these communities. He says the figures may simply show that these communities have a strong connection to their own local language and culture.

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