Being taught an Aboriginal language at school has generally been associated with positive school outcomes for Aboriginal children but not adults. This study attempted to understand this discordance by ...

Victoria's proposed Treaty with Aboriginal people will bring about quite a few changes. As one of them, you might start hearing a few words you didn't know. The Statewide Treaty Bill, which passed the ...

Sylvia Tkac was born to be an Aboriginal interpreter but fell into the profession quite by accident. "My grandmother was an interpreter," Ms Tkac said. "She said to me, 'I need another interpreter, ...

Olivia Fox, a 17-year-old singer from the Newtown High School for the Performing Arts, caused a sensation at the Wallabies’ Tri Nations Cup Test against Argentina at Parramatta on Saturday night when ...

"Every language is a cultural asset of humanity," is how Tasaku Tsunoda expressed his motivation for costarting a project in 2002 to teach the extinct Warrongo language to the Aboriginal people of the ...

Cherylynne Catanzariti has been teaching Aboriginal language for almost 30 years but it was not until 2024 that she began leading classes at Kaurna Plains School in Elizabeth, where her mother first ...

Less than a dozen year 12 students across Australia are studying an Aboriginal language subject as part of their final year of schooling, with several states having no schools that run traditional ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Aboriginal elders talk about the “re-awakening” of languages that are fading from living memory. At NSW public schools, the soft chatter ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Dharug, the first language of the Sydney Basin area, was largely lost after colonisation. But now it is among the Aboriginal languages ...

Language skills in the preschool period are an important indicator of early development and school readiness for children. However, little is known about the association between aspects of the ...

Aboriginal students in Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW) will soon be able to learn their own language in schools as part of the state's curriculum reforms. The plan, announced by the state's ...

Jacqui Frail had taught language for the AECG in schools across the ‎Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaa language nests. Source: Jacqui Frail It will be a bleak holiday period for at least 30 ...