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2025

Yalmay Marika Yunupiŋu Naarm Oration 2024

First tiime the Naarm Oration has been delivered through a First Nations Language Yalmay Marika Yunupiŋu spoke in Rirratjiŋu. Link https://youtu.be/f3r4PnIGBXQ?si=Ov9wSx3uhxCus6tB

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13

2025

TELC - Top End Linguistic Circle

Link to TELC https://www.topendlinguisticcircle.org

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21

2025

NAIDOC EDUCATION WINNERS

CONGRATULATIONS WARLPIRI EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST WINNERS OF THE NATIONAL NAIDOC EDUCATION AWARD CATEGORY 2024 Warlpiri teachers and traditional owners of the Newmont Tanami gold mine site set up WETT in 2005 to use royalties from the mine to impro...

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07

2014

Some postings from other websites and resources that support bilingual learning

Some vital signs for Aboriginal languages from the website THE CONVERSATION, written by Michael Christie, Brian Devlin and Cathy Bow. Will Aboriginal languages still have a role in school learning? Current NT Government policies do not appear to fa...

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Feb

01

2013

The world loses a language every two weeks

"When I speak language, it makes me feel home" - Roger Hart, elder and Cape York Guugu Yimithirr speaker "Having a policy in place is essential to the survival of our people and languages. It would recognise our languages at a political level and ensure regular and con...

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NAIDOC EDUCATION WINNERS

on 21 March 2025.

CONGRATULATIONS WARLPIRI EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST

WINNERS OF THE NATIONAL NAIDOC EDUCATION AWARD CATEGORY 2024

Warlpiri teachers and traditional owners of the Newmont Tanami gold mine site set up WETT in 2005 to use royalties from the mine to improve education and training outcomes for yapa (Warlpiri people) in the Tanami Desert. For almost 20 years, WETT has supported a range of partnerships and programs that align with Warlpiri education priorities in Yuendumu, Willowra, Nyirrpi and Lajamanu. So far, WETT has invested more than $53 million to support yapa (Warlpiri people) across its five education program areas

https://www.naidoc.org.au/award-finalist/warlpiri-education-and-training-trust

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Bilingual Education the Northern Territory

RNLD - Research Network on Language Diversity

Yolŋu Studies

First Languages Australia

LAAL (Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages)

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Why FOBL matters...

FOBL matters because of communication issues that arise on a daily basis for the many speakers of Indigenous languages in the Northern Territory.

Major goals of the FOBL group is to support

the ongoing development and broader use of of interpreting and translating services and provision of training and resources to support them.
the development of bilingual educational programs for students who speak an Aboriginal language as their first language when they start school. These students will be learning English as their second language for the first time at school.

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