In May, First Languages Australia and the Goldfields Language Centre were excited to launch Wangkaku Nintirri: Learn for the sake of our languages, a series of introductory films to support language worker skill development.

This year, First Languages Australia partnered with Living Languages to provide a series of online training sessions for small groups of young language champions.

In early December, First Languages Australia and the Arts Law Centre of Australia hosted a meeting to introduce language centres to the legal services being provided through our partnership until mid 2021.

As part of our ongoing work in the area of training and career development for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working in language programs, we are interested in creating a registry of people currently engaged in this work.

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA has been collaborating with language custodians and schools to publish three illustrations of practice to give examples of the ways that different schools are developing and implementing a local Aboriginal language curriculum.

First Languages Australia is calling for expressions of interest for the Priority Languages Support Project.

Disney+ celebrated NAIDOC Week 2020 with the premier of Spread the Word, our ten-part series that shares Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words from language groups across the country.

After a significant amount of consultation and collaboration, Tauondi Aboriginal College is pleased to be able to offer the following courses, in all states and territories, to Registered Training Organisations interested in adding languages training to their scope of registration.

ABC Education has worked with eight young speakers from around the country to share greetings in their Aboriginal languages.

First Languages Australia was pleased to be part of the national forum on the 2020 National Indigenous Languages Report (NILR).

First Languages Australia committee members met with Ken Wyatt, Minister for Indigenous Australians, in November, to discuss the need for national legislation to protect Australia’s first languages.

A placenames page has been added to Gambay to help us collate and promote the names and stories that language custodians wish to share.

Trove is the national search engine through which people can explore the amazing collections held by Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.

The Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages has joined with the non/fictionLab at Writing and Publishing RMIT to bring us Ngeerang Woorroong (Mother Tongue) as part of their "How the future looks now" discussion series.

The second language teacher survey being conducted by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations for the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment is now open.

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has been collaborating with language custodians and the schools to publish three 'illustrations of practice' to give examples of the ways that different schools are developing and implementing a local Aboriginal language curriculum.

For our ABC Education Competition this year, we asked students to create an artwork featuring the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander language of their local area.

This year, First Languages Australia worked with Miromaa Aboriginal Language and Technology Centre to provide free multi-media kits to language centres to support their work.

A reminder that applications for the 2021 Master of Indigenous Languages Education (MILE) program close Thurs 31 Oct 2020.