Dying Words The race to save Aboriginal Languages in Australia - a Radio National interview transcript from the Lingua Franca program, 2010.   read more... Music Outback Foundation In its language preservation work, Music Outback teams work with linguists and community members to record traditional stories in language and develop them into first language contemporary songs. This process has proven to be very exciting for community elders who are the custodians of these stories, as otherwise they often find it difficult to interest young people in this aspect of their culture.   read more... Language Preservation Spurred on by the critical need to halt the loss of endemic indigenous languages across Australia, academics at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education in the Northern Territory are finding themselves involved in a front-line offensive...   read more... Indigenous Languages in Australian Schools The Report on Indigenous Languages Programmes in Australian Schools - A Way Forward was funded by the Australian Government DEST and released in December 2008.   read more... Statistics from the ABS The number of Indigenous school students enrolled in Year 12 has doubled since 1999, according to detailed statistical data from the National Schools Census released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In 2008, there were 4,779 Indigenous school students enrolled in Year 12, compared with 2,206 enrolled in 1999. Overall in 2008, 151,669 school students were identified as Indigenous, a 42% increase on the 1999 total of 106,628 students.   read more...

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