First Languages Australia is pleased to have launched Gakal: First languages skills register.

First Languages Australia bid a fond farewell to our founding manager Faith Baisden with immense gratitude.

We have a growing number of projects with partner organisations that would benefit from the part-time support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language workers with specific skills.

A reminder that First Languages Australia has extended the free legal services from Arts Law to language centres until June 2022.

The Priority Languages Support Project is open to expressions of interest.

First Languages Australia partnered with Rising Voices to finish the year with an online training session for language workers across Oceania.

First Languages Australia and ABC Education have collaborated to offer the Indigenous Language Art Competition for a second year.

While schools are increasingly interested in offering a local language as a curriculum subject, there remains little awareness of how to begin discussions with local custodians to initiate such programs.

First Languages Australia was invited to provide content for broadcast on big screens across the site of World Expo Dubai for the duration of the event.

As we head into the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022–2032, Rising Voices is working with UNESCO to build a language digital activism toolkit to support communities worldwide who want to leverage technology and digital media to promote our languages on the internet.

First Languages Australia has taken on a number of new promotional partners which has led to the growing audience for Gambay.

Congratulations also to the AFL and Yolŋu Radio for broadcasting the Dreamtime match in Yolŋu Matha to community members in Darwin and across Arnhem Land.

Congratulations to the Central Queensland Language Centre team for their work with Queensland Rail to embed acknowledgement of country in language on long-distance train services across their region.

From May to July 2021, First Languages Australia and Rising Voices have invited young champions from Australia and Indigenous language digital activists of Mexico to participate in a virtual exchange program.

First Languages Australia has been pleased to assist in the design of promotional materials for language centres.

Building on the success of previous years’ competitions, ABC Education and First Languages Australia have launched the 2021 Indigenous Language Art Competition.

Information is being collected from language centres nationally to establish appropriate pay rates for all of us in the language sector.

Conversations are continuing with the Permanent Committee on Place Names (now known as the Australia and New Zealand Working Group on Place Names, WGPN) to establish protocols for reviewing existing materials in the public databases and adding new information.

First Languages Australia has been working with Media Farm to interview the artists who participated in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Indigenous Language International Speaker Series in 2019.

First Languages Australia responded to Minister Wyatt’s call for input into the national voice proposal.