In March, First Languages Australia, the Queensland Indigenous Languages Advisory Committee (QILAC) and the Independent Education Union – Qld & NT Branch (IEU-QNT) Yubbah Action Group released Industrial Guidelines for Employees Delivering First Nations Language Programs. They are available from the resource section of our website.

First Languages Australia was pleased to be invited to present at the second Victorian Aboriginal Teachers Alliance (VALTA) forum in Naarm, in February.

We are pleased to welcome Jillian Bowie – Senior Program Officer, Ella Woods – Senior Program Officer and Breanna Edman - Senior to the First Languages Australia team.

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.

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

ABC Education and First Languages Australia partnered to run an Acknowledgement of Country poster competition for a second year.

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.

Voices of Country—Australia's Action Plan for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022–2032 provides a framework to guide Australia's participation in the International Decade.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always been multilingual, using more than one language to communicate with different groups for different purposes and contexts.

Yalbilinya: National First Languages Education Workforce Strategy is the final outcome of the three-year Yalbilinya: National Indigenous Languages Education Project collaboration.

The United Nations General Assembly has declared the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL) to draw attention to the critical status of many Indigenous languages across the world and encourage action.

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.

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).

Your feedback is invited on proposed revisions to the Australian Curriculum: Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages.

First Languages Australia proposes to host facilitated discussions on the third Wednesday of each month.

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

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.

First Languages Australia was delighted to be a major sponsor of PULiiMA Indigenous Language and Technology Conference. It is exciting to see the way PULiiMA continues to grow.

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

PULiiMA is being held in Darwin from 21-25 August 2023.