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).

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

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

We are pleased to have negotiated the reframing of the election commitment for $14 million for 60 language and culture teachers in schools.

Trinity Clarke is a Kuku Yalanji, Kuku Nyungkul, Lama Lama and Ayapathu woman who has come to First Languages Australia from our Young Champions program. Arna Walker is an accountant with extensive experience in payroll and systems management.

The language sector is growing, and the strength of the sector will depend on the efforts of people with a diverse range of skills.

This year the Priority Languages Support Program has received some additional funds from the Australian Government Office for the Arts.

First Languages Australia is pleased to be continuing the Young Champions initiative this year.

The International Decade of Indigenous Languages Directions Group released a draft Indigenous Languages Priorities Paper for consultation within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages sector.

In March, First Languages Australia supported a meeting of WA language centres in Perth.

The International Decade of Indigenous Languages Directions Group has released a draft Indigenous Languages Priorities Paper for consultation within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages sector.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language centres are invited to apply for an ABC staff member to be seconded to their organisation, to assist your organisation with a specific project/program.

The National Languages Policy Partnership brings Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experts and representatives from all commonwealth, state and territory governments to develop recommendations for achieving language outcomes with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

First Languages Australia would like to introduce new staff members, Kaleesha Morris, Stacie Salter and Maree Burke-Brown.

First Languages Australia is pleased to have collaborated with Angela Harrison, Samantha Disbray, the Institute for Aboriginal Development, Batchelor Institute and the University of Queensland to publish Mangurr-jangu — a workbook of activities for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.

There has been momentum in Victoria regarding providing training for people who wish to teach their languages independently in schools.

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.

Representatives of the National Language Policy Partnership have been announced.

The Priority Languages Support Project is once again receiving expressions of interest.

Representatives of First Languages Australia, the Pacific Task Force and the Directions Group attended the launch of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages in Paris in December 2022.