Author Archives: australianlanguages

Yolngu street names on Elcho Island in English orthography only?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by australianlanguages

Here is a nice piece from ABC news about a recent dispute over which orthography to be used on street signs on Elcho Island. The local Place Names Committee ruled that street signs must be in English orthography, but the … Continue reading →

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Developer registers kunanyi domain name.

Posted on March 18, 2013 by australianlanguages

Recently Tasmania caught up with the rest of the country by finally implementing a dual place name policy, as I blogged about here. In an edit of that post I linked to a news article reporting that the Tasmanian Aboriginal … Continue reading →

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Tasmania gets a dual place naming policy

Posted on March 13, 2013 by australianlanguages

In other good news for Aboriginal languages today, the Tasmanian government has announced a dual place naming policy. Well known landmarks such as Larapuna (Bay of Fires) and Kunanyi (Mt Wellington) will receive dual name signs and Aboriginal names will … Continue reading →

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Creative Australia- New National Culture Policy

Posted on March 13, 2013 by australianlanguages

The Federal Minister for Arts Simon Crean today announced the Creative Australia Policy, said to be the first update to Australian cultural policy in twenty years. The policy focuses on the visual and performing arts and includes a budget of … Continue reading →

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Puliima 2013

Posted on March 13, 2013 by australianlanguages

Puliima National Indigenous Language and Technology Forum is set to run in Melbourne this year 26th-30th of August. Registrations will be opening soon. To find out more visit the Puliima website here. -Annie

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Australian languages on radio national

Posted on December 18, 2012 by australianlanguages

I haven’t made a blog post for a while sorry but will write about the Our Land Our Languages report as soon as I can. In the meantime check out these discussion that have aired on Radio National over the … Continue reading →

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Our Land Our Lanugages report released- exciting times for Aboriginal languages.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by australianlanguages

As many of you may be aware by now the Our Land, Our Languages report was released earlier this week. The report is the result of the Nation Inquiry into Indigenous Language Learning which collected submissions from all over the … Continue reading →

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Ngukurr in the News

Posted on August 5, 2012 by australianlanguages

As I’ve written before, Ngukurr language centre is up and running again and looking for a co-ordinator. Here is a short interview with Greg Dickson and Anthony Daniels about what has been going on at the language centre and its … Continue reading →

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Co-ordinator position available at Ngukurr Language Centre

Posted on July 31, 2012 by australianlanguages

Ngukurr Language centre in Ngukurr, N.T. is currently looking for a suitable person to become the co-ordinator for the language centre. This is a really exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to be part of excellent endangered language documentation teams … Continue reading →

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Kids books in Paakantyi

Posted on July 24, 2012 by australianlanguages

Following up from my post about language learning at Wilcannia Central School yesterday, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation has just launched two new children’s books written in Paakantyi. Written by Faith Baisden with input from Murray Butcher the books are a … Continue reading →

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