Category Archives: Queensland

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

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.

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

Graduation for Community Language Workers who completed a Diploma Australian Languages, and Warrgamay Elder who completed A Ba Arts (Language and Linguistics). Article by Jedda Priman. On Saturday 19th September 2009, students from the North Queensland region who completed their … Continue reading →

The Australian Council of State School Organisations put out a regular newsletter about Languages Education in Australia. This month they have highlighted the National Languages Policy Announcement. The article, and full newsletter can be read at http://www.languageseducation.com/newsl090827.htm#toc1