Category Archives: Queensland

Announcement: Eastern States Language Centres Meeting

The Eastern States Aboriginal Languages Group is planning a meeting to bring together representatives of language centres and language programs in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and ACT.

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Meeting at AIATSIS

ESALG members were pleased to accept an invitation from AIATSIS Director Mr. Russell Taylor to hold their November meeting at the Institute, using the opportunity to share information between the two groups.

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Meeting with the Governor-General

Members of the Eastern States Aboriginal Languages Group were pleased to accept an invitation to a morning tea with the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC  at Government House Canberra on the 22nd November.

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2010-11 MILR program funding announced

Congratulations to all those who received funding this year. We look forward to seeing the outcomes of your projects.

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Miromaa Training begins at Thursday Island

We have just started today and the workshop is going great. The Thursday Island mob are very excited and couldn’t help but comment that a black fella must’ve come up with the concept of Miromaa.

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Teacher backs call for Aboriginal education

Queensland Times Article by Zane Jackson St Peter Claver indigenous education liaison officer Kargun Fogarty is backing calls to introduce indigenous language into schools. Photo by Rob Williams. AN INDIGENOUS Ipswich educator has backed calls for Aboriginal languages to be … Continue reading

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Cairns film, in Girrimae Language, screens at Berlin festival

Article by Daniel Bateman in The Cairns Post A CAIRNS filmmaker has the world in his lens, debuting a movie at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Butchulla may be taught in schools

Article by Stephen O’Grady, from the Fraser Coast Chronicle HERVEY Bay is poised to pioneer an indigenous education revolution. Scrub Hill Indigenous Education Forum. Attending: Sandy Strait State School principal Shane Urquhart, Fraser Coast councillor David Dalgleish, Paul Herschell and … Continue reading

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Call for Aboriginal language studies in schools

ABC online A Brisbane academic has called for indigenous languages to be taught in schools. Griffith University’s Dale Kerwin says Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island dialects have been denied their rightful place as official Australian languages. Dr Kerwin says the … Continue reading

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Eastern States Indigenous Languages Education Roundtable.

On November 4th 2009, the Eastern States Aboriginal Languages Group convened the Indigenous Languages Education  Roundtable at the State Library of New South Wales.

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