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Saturday, August 18

The sound of The Beginning of Nature

More than three years in the making and featuring a libretto sung in Kaurna, The Beginning of Nature is a fitting centrepiece for the inaugural Adelaide Dance Festival.

Call to restore bilingual education to APY schools

The head of a panel involved in the development of a new Aboriginal Education Strategy for state schools says reintroducing bilingual education in the APY Lands would help improve poor Indigenous literacy and numeracy levels.

Part of the UNESCO listed Australian Indigenous Language collection held at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Photo: AIATSIS/Wikimedia Commons

Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languages

An international not-for-profit organisation dedicated to building the world’s largest language archive is turning its attention to Australia’s indigenous languages.