The area covered by the North Queensland Language Centre includes forty three Aboriginal languages over an area south to Sarina, west to Richmond and north to Mossman in North Queensland. While research has shown that only one of these groups has over 20 fluent speakers, several of the languages are now being revived as a result of the work of the language centre and its committee members. (more…)
The Nalingu Aboriginal Corporation is responsible for the research, recording and preservation of the languages around the Maranoa and Ballone Rivers in central Queensland. The office is in the main street of Mitchell, west of Roma.
A committee representing the different languages of the area meets regularly to discuss projects and their progress. Nalingu Aboriginal Corporation works closely with the local council and schools to promote language preservation in the Mitchell district. Young community members are taking an active role in language recording projects and developing skills in using new technology to support the work of the Corporation. (more…)
Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation began in 1972, when a group of women led by Decima Angeles, established a housing co-operative to meet the needs of the local Aboriginal people in the Hervey Bay area. Over the years since then the organisation has grown in strength and diversified the services it offers to the community. The preservation of language and culture has been a strong focus of the Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation, with activities such as traditional dance, fishing, horticulture, weaving, sewing, beading and woodwork being offered for young and old. The Butchulla Language Program has been a particularly successful outcome from Korrawinga’s work. This vibrant program owes much of its strength to the involvement of the younger members of the community, who use story telling, oral histories, games, song and dance to teach and keep their language alive. The Butchulla Language Program has also produced a set of bi-lingual language teaching books that you can read. (more…)
The Cape York Bama Languages Aboriginal Corporation covers an area of one hundred and fifty thousand kilometres. This extends from the tribal area of the Kuku Yalanji north of Cairns, from the east coast across through the land of the Kunjen and on to the country of the Kokoberra in the south west of Cape York. The area extends north from this to the tip of Cape York Peninsula. (more…)
Mirroma Workshop Participants 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. (more…)
The long-lost works of one of Australia’s leading early anthropologists have been discovered in the shed of a northern New South Wales cattleman.
The groundbreaking works of Caroline Tennant-Kelly, close friend of the famed American anthropologist Margaret Mead, were believed destroyed until uncovered by the detective work of a dogged team of two University of Queensland researchers — Mr Kim de Rijke and Mr Tony Jefferies.
The works contain recordings of Indigenous Languages of Southeast Queensland and Northern NSW.
You can read more about this in a media statement released by The University of Queensland.
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 article by Louise McDermott (Media Advisor in the Public Affairs Unit at the Australian Human Rights Commission) in the Human Rights Law Resource Centre Bulletin, Volume 47 – March 2010
The article summarises the 2009 Social Justice Report released 22 January 2010, and highlights Indigenous Languages as one of three key themes to the report.
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Aritcle by Daniel Bateman in The Cairns Post
A CAIRNS filmmaker has the world in his lens, debuting a movie at the Berlin Film Festival.
Reflecting on his achievement: Rima Tamou’s film First Contact will screen at the Berlin Film Festival next week. Picture: JAKE NOWAKOWSKI
Article by Stephen O’Grady, from the Fraser Coast Chronicle
HERVEY Bay is poised to pioneer an indigenous education revolution.
