Language
Children are getting behind in language skills: report
A new report collated by the National Early Language and Literacy Coalition found out Australian children are getting behind in......
Indigenous Literacy Day: Celebrating stories and culture
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation are today celebrating Indigenous Literacy Day with a free virtual event, fostering a love of books......
Aboriginal English to improve Indigenous health communication
Aboriginal English is spoken by an estimated 80 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and is the......
Calls to shake up vaccine campaign
Health and diversity experts are urging health authorities to ensure linguistically diverse communities aren’t left in the dark as the......
The power of connection to country told through a child’s eyes
Aboriginal children across the country attend mainstream education that doesn’t integrate their culture and language despite international research showing that......
Wamparla Apira tells an Arabana story for Arabana people
Wamparla Apira tells the story of Arabana people from central South Australia catching possums for food and clothing. The children’s......
Indigenous Australian languages no longer ‘lost in translation’
Researchers from Western Sydney University and the University of Newcastle have theoretically proven that all 250 known languages within Indigenous......
NAIDOC Week: Preserving Australia’s Indigenous languages
Almost half of Australia’s 250 traditional languages are considered endangered and the issue is the focus of NAIDOC Week 2017. Indigenous communities are......
Number of Aboriginal bilingual classes are declining
In 1974, the Northern Territory government implemented a bilingual education policy for Aboriginal children. For the first time, Aboriginal schools......
Indigenous communities working hard to preserve their language
In 2001 the Department of the Environment and Heritage published a report that declared Australia might lose all its Indigenous......