Communications & Culture
More than eighty years ago a German linguist in Western Australia noted down stories that he was told by local...
Education
The Northern Territory has released a draft update to its controversial policy on language in schools. In 2009 the Territory...
Communication is vital for everyday life but what happens when your way of communicating disappears? This is happening to Indigenous...
When white men first arrived in Australia there were an estimated 250 different Indigenous languages spoken. A National Indigenous Languages...
In around half a dozen schools in the Northern Territory Indigenous children are taught in English for the first four...
The status of Aboriginal languages in Australia is bad. Only about a dozen are naturally passed on from parents to...
Singer songwriter Shellie Morris has performed with artists as diverse as Jimmy Little, The Melbourne Symphony Orhcestra, and Indigenous supergroup...
Children achieve better results learning in their first language in the early years of education. This is the finding of...
The Northern Territory Education Department is failing in its attempt to have Territory schools in remote indigenous communities teach most...
With illiteracy levels in some remote aboriginal communities as high as 93%, education programmes are the way forward. Sonia Gentile...
