The NSW Department of Education and the Aboriginal Education and Communities Directorate today demonstrated their commitment to safeguarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and language ...

This month, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the launch of APTN Languages, a channel dedicated to programming in 18 different Indigenous ...

Fifty years ago, students would be punished for taking this class. Now they're bringing this Indigenous language back. Every Monday afternoon, a handful of people gather in a TAFE classroom on the New ...

When Mayarr Yanner attended primary school more than a decade ago in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria she was taught Japanese. Her peers at Burketown State School, most of whom were Aboriginal, asked ...

Felicity Meakins receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Aboriginal Benefits Account. Acknowledging Australia’s traditional owners of country and paying respect to Indigenous ...

Words are the binds that keep communities together, but many of Australia's First Languages are rapidly being lost. When combined with new technologies, however, they can be preserved and spread in ...

Being taught an Aboriginal language at school has generally been associated with positive school outcomes for Aboriginal children but not adults. This study attempted to understand this discordance by ...

Cherylynne Catanzariti has been teaching Aboriginal language for almost 30 years but it was not until 2024 that she began leading classes at Kaurna Plains School in Elizabeth, where her mother first ...

If you were to ask me two years ago what my favorite language family was, I would have said that I couldn’t pick one. I would say that because I believe that every language family is interesting in ...

Laura Rademaker received funding from the Northern Territory History Grants Scheme, Australian Research Theology Foundation and Cushwa Centre. Linguistically speaking, Australia is special. With ...