First Languages Australia Language Centres meeting, February 2018

First Languages Australia was pleased host a national meeting to coincide with people travelling to Queensland for the National Indigenous Languages Convention in February. The meeting was an opportunity to feedback activities underway since the Cairns meeting in November, with the report from that meeting distributed and discussed. The gathering made a renewed call to Canberra for national legislation to support language into the future within the structure of government.

There was also a call for First Languages Australia to work with language centres toward a tool for local collection management, and produce a series of contracts and protocol documents that can be accessed by all project teams and adapted to the specifics of local projects. First Languages Australia is in discussion with the Indigenous Languages and the Arts Program and Arts Law to see these projects underway.