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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
INDIGENOUS languages spoken in the southwest for thousands of years are being revived in local communities, with three language preservation projects set to be rolled out across the region in the ...
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.
Developed over two years in line with the national curriculum, the 10-week program will explore language and other aspects of Indigenous culture, such as kinship and country.
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.