Yalbilinya: National First Languages Education Project

Since 2019, First Languages Australia has been working with stakeholders on Yalbilinya, a project funded by the Commonwealth Government Department of Education to identify strategies to increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language education. The project has been completed successfully with extremely high stakeholder engagement and enthusiasm, and reports on the three pillars of work are here.

The final pillar of work was the development of Yalbilinya: National First Languages Education Workforce Strategy and action plan. A particular success has been the level of engagement from language educators, centres and programs, unions, Education Departments and learning providers committed to working with us to implement the strategy in the coming decade.

In line with the development of the workforce strategy, five other significant bodies of work are underway for industrial guidelines, bilingual education, language teacher education, a portal of educators and language teacher registration. We look forward to sharing these resources with you as they are published.