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Have your say!

The National Languages Policy Partnership invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to have their say on the LPP’s identified national priority areas to achieve Target 16 of Closing the Gap.

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New Staff

We are pleased to welcome Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker and Philip Winzer to the First Languages Australia team.

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Murrayarra: Evaluation toolkit

Through 2022, First Languages Australia joined with human-computer interaction researchers at the Australian National University and Charles Darwin University on a small research project to identify how language communities evaluate the technologies they develop to support language activities.

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Place Names Protocols Workshop

In October, the Central Queensland Language Centre (CQLC), First Languages Australia and Queensland Department of Resources met to workshop community protocols for including Taribelang, Gurang and Goreng Goreng place names in the Queensland government database.

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Third meeting of the Language Policy Partnership

On October 10-11, the third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Policy Partnership (LPP) meeting was held in the homelands of the Yawuru people in Rubibi (Broome).

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Young Champions at PULiiMA

First Languages Australia was again pleased to sponsor young language champions to attend the PULiiMA Indigenous Language & Technology Conference.

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Ngarrangarra gum midling: Language Centres meeting

First Languages Australia hosted a meeting of language centres and programs as part of PULiiMA’s workshop program. The meeting was attended by 100 language centre and partner representatives.

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ABC strategic partnership

The ABC and First Languages Australia have signed a strategic partnership agreement to confirm and amplify our collaborations.

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Queensland’s first language teacher registration

In a Queensland first, Wakka Wakka language teacher Corey Appo has been registered as a specialist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language teacher, recognised with a Permission to Teach (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages).

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Yuuingan Dhilla Yari

First Languages Australia CEO, Beau Williams, provided the keynote address at Yuuingan Dhilla Yari, the State Library of Queensland’s 2023 Indigenous Languages Symposium.

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Place names

First Languages Australia’s conversations around the recognition of place names are continuing.

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