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First Languages Australia in partnership with local language centres across Australia have developed an interactive map to display and promote the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
For musician and producer Deline Briscoe, using language in her songs is not just a responsibility, it is a continuation of tradition and honouring her ancestors. "That's one of the forms we pass ...
Archibald Meston at an Aboriginal camp, 1904. Credit: State Library of Queensland “It’s in draft form at the minute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and they are hoping it ...
Language used everywhere, every day. Karen Ford is head of curriculum at Burketown State School where more than 90 per cent of students are Indigenous.
Patricia O'Connor received the Queensland Greats Award in 2019 for being an Indigenous advocate. Mr O'Connor said Indigenous languages made people connect words with stories.
Ms Saltner said the Language Centre, which covers an area of Central Queensland extending west to Longreach, has been working on reclaiming 13 different indigenous languages.
The Indigenous portal replaces and upgrades the pre-existing ... a map of Australia’s first languages. ... translates to "together" in the Butchulla language of the Hervey Bay region in Queensland.