Language
Word Adelaide Festival
For the next few days venues across Adelaide will play host to everything from yarn spinning, scrabble, short stories and......
Awakening the “sleeping beauties” of Aboriginal languages
The international Australex language conference is underway in Adelaide, and this year the focus is on endangered words and signs......
New Aboriginal language born in the NT
A new language has emerged: not out of the depths of the Amazon or the hill tribes of Africa but......
Cementing Aboriginal history
The Aboriginal oral tradition is an important one, but how do you bring these stories to a wider audience, and......
SFF doco explores revival of lost language
The traditional language of Kaurna country in South Australia’s Adelaide Plains is thought to have disappeared about 100 years ago.......
Barngarla language to be revived
Australia has the world record of linguicide, according to experts on the topic. But different communities across South Australia join......
Experts cautiously welcome support for Aboriginal languages in NSW
The NSW government has launched what it says is a new ‘partnership’ approach to Aboriginal affairs. The policy has a......
Language experts wary about Asian century plan after disappointments
Language experts have welcomed the ambition of the government’s white paper on the Asian Century, but they remain wary in......
Calls for Indigenous Language in Early Education
The results of a parliamentary report on language learning in Indigenous communities has prompted calls for the inclusion of indigenous......
Peoples or Populations? It’s all in the terminology
Current policies towards indigenous Australians, including the Northern Territory intervention, view Aboriginals as a ‘population’, with all the associated negative......