Sentences with phrase «australian indigenous languages»

South Australia's framework for Australian Indigenous languages provides several types of programs appropriate for different language situations.

The intergenerational transmission of Australian Indigenous languages: why language maintenance programmes should be family - focused.

Created in 1994, the Aboriginal Australia map is an attempt to show the diversity of Australian Indigenous languages using sources available at the time.

Secondly, the online publication of these materials makes them accessible to a wide audience, including the communities of origin, educators and researchers, as well as the general public, who may not have been aware of the existence of such a vast range of written materials in Australian Indigenous languages.

11 % of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people spoke an Australian Indigenous language as their main language at home.

20 % of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can speak some words of an Australian Indigenous language.

11 % spoke an Australian Indigenous language as their main language (including 37 % of Torres Strait Islander people who spoke a Torres Strait Island language)

Just over two - thirds (68 %) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people spoke an Australian Indigenous language.

Not exact matches

The highlights of the results of the trio's preliminary analysis of six of the ancient Australian tales was presented during an indigenous language conference in Japan.

«This draft framework sets out how teachers and schools can work with local communities to keep language alive and encourage more young Indigenous Australians to learn and communicate in language,» he said.

The ACER report provides an analysis of Australian students» financial literacy background in the context of student background characteristics: Indigenous background, geographic location, immigrant and language background, and socioeconomic background.

«Among both Year 6 and Year 10 students, about nine out of ten students endorsed the notion that Australia should support the cultural traditions and languages of Indigenous Australians (about 95 per cent in Year 6 and 94 per cent in Year 10),» the report reveals.

Using authentic language resources to incorporate Indigenous knowledges across the Australian Curriculum.

The Australian Government's national Indigenous language policy was announced, with a focus on:

In August 2009 the Australian Government released a policy with the aim of preserving and promoting Indigenous languages.

It is not merely an accident of language that the appalling infant mortality and peri-natal morbidity rates for Indigenous infants results in vastly disproportionate «hospital separations» today, and that the juvenile justice systems of Australia continue to separate Indigenous children from their families at rates well beyond those for other Australian children.

It is a culturally diverse society with a population of more than 22 million.21 Australia's population includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples and migrants from some 200 countries with Indigenous Australian peoples representing 2.5 % of the total population.22 In over 60 years of planned post-war migration, Australia has accepted more than 6.5 million migrants and in the most recent census (2006), 3.1 million people (16 % of the population) were reported to speak a language other than English at home.23 The majority of the population lives in the cities mainly located around the coast; however, many live in rural and remote areas ranging from dry arid land to tropical and a few live in what are arguably some of the most remote and untouched areas of the world.

The Australian Arts Minister and the Indigenous Affairs Minister announced more than $ 37 million in funding for Indigenous arts, cultural, languages and broadcasting programs across Australia in 2008 - 09.

If the power of interests is to determine the basis of Australian society then Indigenous people, as a small minority group, will continue to lose their culture, their land, and their language to the will of the non-Indigenous majority.

In accordance with the functions set out in section 46C (1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth), this report includes 4 recommendations on justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system, 7 recommendations for the protection of Indigenous languages and 1 recommendation for sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities.

For the majority of Indigenous Australians the rights to Indigenous knowledge are generally owned collectively by the Indigenous community (or language group, or tribal group) as distinct from the individual.

So too was the death this week of another South Australian Indigenous leader, Kuarna Elder Stephen Gadlabarti Goldsmith, acclaimed as a «fierce fighter for his language and culture».

The Constitution of the state of Victoria makes reference to the unique status of Indigenous Australians as the first peoples, though this has no bearing on the language rights of Indigenous Victorians.

A statement in the preamble could describe the place of Indigenous language and culture in Australian society, though it would have no legal or enforceable status.

[1] Australian Government Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Indigenous Languages - A National Approach, The importance of Australia's Indigenous languages.

Croakey readers might also be interested to watch his 30 - minute lecture delivered earlier this year at Melbourne's Wheeler Centre: Should Australian cities bear Indigenous language names?

The loss of Indigenous languages in Australia is a loss for all Australians.

Indigenous perspectives aim to give students the opportunity to learn about the history, culture, language and social context of Indigenous Australians through maths, science, English and history.

In August 2009, the Australian Government released the National Approach to Preserving and Promoting Indigenous languages.

The most recent additions to the Film collection are amongst the most exciting, including copies of TV programs from CAAMA and Imparja TV, because they are created and produced by Indigenous Australians featuring local languages as well as earlier ethnographic footage.

Other valuable resources for Australian language education are the Aboriginal Australia map and AUSTLANG, the Australian Indigenous Languages Database.

AUSTLANG, the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, assembles information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages from various sources.

From the earliest days of European contact there was often an assumption that Indigenous Australian languages were of less value than English and this view soon hardened into government policy, which was reinforced through education and employment practices.

An important resource for the preservation and revival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages is the Australian Indigenous Languages Collection.

Words from 100 Indigenous languages are in the new edition of the Australian National Dictionary — reflecting a heightened interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.

Indigenous Australian authors continue to argue [including 6, 18, 62, 63], that the shifts required to effect meaningful changes in indigenous health are greater than simply teaching health workers some indigenous language or as indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [1Indigenous Australian authors continue to argue [including 6, 18, 62, 63], that the shifts required to effect meaningful changes in indigenous health are greater than simply teaching health workers some indigenous language or as indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [1indigenous health are greater than simply teaching health workers some indigenous language or as indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [1indigenous language or as indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [1indigenous Australian leader Puggy Hunter puts it, learning to «hug a blackie» [18, p. 88].

Children in the study were learning up to six languages simultaneously, including English (both Standard Australian English and Aboriginal Australian English), Indigenous languages, creoles, foreign languages (other than English) and sign languages.

[1] Note - Use of the terms «Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» and «Indigenous peoples» in this guideline: The Australian Human Rights Commission recognises the diversity of the cultures, languages, kinship structures and ways of life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Over 250 Indigenous Australian language groups covered the continent at the time of European settlement in 1788.

Blue Mountains Music Festival, March 2017 Elizabeth Walton, Timber & Steel: «The Mission Songs Project brings new life to the voices of the stolen generation and indigenous Australians who were splintered from their cultures when they were made to sing in a foreign language.

The Commission recommends that the Government take steps to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution; remove the discriminatory section 25 of the Constitution and replace it with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law; reform the Native Title Act to address measures that have been found to be racially discriminatory; [19] provide reparations to Indigenous communities for harm resulting from past child removal practices; and take measures to protect and promote Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, connection to traditional land through homelands and outstations, as well as the use of increasingly threatened languages, including through support for bilingual education programs.

In other Australian jurisdictions there is still work to be done to integrate Indigenous languages into the state curriculum frameworks.

Supporting Indigenous Language Programs in Schools: To support and maintain the teaching and learning of Indigenous languages in Australian schools.

The Commonwealth's policy is to preserve, protect and promote the rights and freedom of indigenous Australians to use and develop indigenous Australian languages.

She is a strong advocate for Indigenous Australian languages, social justice, women's issues, and has worked tirelessly to reduce Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages Languages in the Australian Indigenous Languages group of the Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL).

An additional set of targets is being developed by the Close the Gap Campaign partners to address the broad range of social and cultural factors that have a profound influence on the health of Indigenous Australians, such as housing, education, community safety, employment, community development, culture and language and contact with the criminal justice system.