Posted
There is a need to move beyond grim statistics to provide programs for educating young Indigenous people in culture, language and business, a forum at the University of Wollongong has heard.
Topics: aboriginal-language, indigenous-culture, derby-6728, university-of-wollongong-2522
Posted
| UpdatedThe NSW Government's recent move to consult on draft legislation to recognise and protect NSW Aboriginal languages is being supported by the peak body for Indigenous languages.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal-language, aboriginal, community-and-society, education, nambucca-heads-2448, sydney-2000, nsw
Posted
| UpdatedThe New South Wales Government announces plans to legislate to protect and revitalise Aboriginal languages.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, community-and-society, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, nsw, australia
Posted
Topics: aboriginal-language, aboriginal, community-and-society, hobart-7000
Posted
| UpdatedIn Noongar country, in the south-west of Western Australia, researchers are building the first Wikipedia site in an Aboriginal Australian language.
Topics: indigenous-culture, history, aboriginal-language, languages, internet-technology, bunbury-6230
Posted
For the first time in nearly 50 years a song in the Malgana language has been performed to the public.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-music, aboriginal-language, carnivals-and-festivals, history, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, denham-6537
Posted
A leading Indigenous educator has criticised the way Indigenous languages are being taught in New South Wales public schools.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, aboriginal-language, education, subjects, languages, coffs-harbour-2450
Posted
Topics: education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal-language, coffs-harbour-2450
Posted
Experts say they need $1 million a year to fund an ambitious new push to record all of Australia's surviving Indigenous languages and songlines, before it is too late.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal-language, australia
Posted
New technologies are reviving lost languages and breaking language barriers in ways previously dreamt up in quirky science fiction.
Topics: languages, science-and-technology, aboriginal-language, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, internet-technology, port-lincoln-5606, adelaide-5000, sa
Posted
| UpdatedA reclamation is underway of former missions to transform them into places of cultural healing for families whose members were part of the Stolen Generations.
Topics: christianity, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, stolen-generations, wa, katanning-6317
Posted
The world's first Aboriginal Australian-language video game is being developed in a bid to preserve traditional language and culture.
Topics: aboriginal-language, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, games-industry, kids-games-and-links, internet-culture, human-interest, canberra-2600, act, australian-national-university-0200, wa, nt, alice-springs-0870, kalgoorlie-6430
Posted
A new interactive cultural walking track in the Orara East State Forest, north of Coffs Harbour, opens to the public and illustrates a traditional Gumbaynggirr creation story.
Topics: environmental-management, forests, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal-language, contemporary-art, visual-art, korora-2450
Posted
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, community-and-society, indigenous-culture, contemporary-art, forestry, forests, korora-2450
Posted
Perth singer Gina Williams is committed to preserving the Noongar language through music, and a chance meeting with The Church's Steve Kilbey leads to an unexpected performance of an Australian classic.
Topics: indigenous-music, music, aboriginal-language, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, human-interest, perth-6000
Posted
The current work for dole scheme does not work, according to police and community leaders in remote Western Australia.
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, police, law-crime-and-justice, kalgoorlie-6430
Posted
Topics: aboriginal-language, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, police, federal-government, community-development, kalgoorlie-6430
Posted
Topics: aboriginal-language, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, police, federal-government, community-development, kalgoorlie-6430
Posted
Topics: aboriginal-language, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, police, federal-government, community-development, kalgoorlie-6430
Posted
| UpdatedAn Indigenous man who spent time in the NT's youth detention system as a teenager is concerned Australia does not know enough about Aboriginal culture and the nation's history.
Topics: aboriginal-language, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, history, education, indigenous-culture, nt
Posted
A West Australian linguist has welcomed words from more than 100 Indigenous languages being added to the Australian National Dictionary.
Topics: indigenous-culture, aboriginal-language, languages, community-and-society, books-literature, geraldton-6530
Posted
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, fashion, community-development, community-and-multicultural-festivals, community-organisations, community-education, indigenous-culture, kalgoorlie-6430
Posted
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, fashion, community-development, community-and-multicultural-festivals, community-organisations, community-education, indigenous-culture, kalgoorlie-6430
Posted
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, fashion, community-development, community-and-multicultural-festivals, community-organisations, community-education, indigenous-culture, kalgoorlie-6430
Posted
In the remote Western Australian Aboriginal community of Warburton, fashion is being used to drive social change.
Topics: fashion, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, community-development, community-organisations, community-and-multicultural-festivals, regional-development, regional, kalgoorlie-6430