Faith Baisden

But I've been hearing lately from people who take positive steps to prove that history and traditions live on even where they're not expected.

NLLIAs 1996 Brisbane Language Expo

Representatives from Language bodies, community projects, education and government agencies and related indigenous organisations around Australia, are being invited to take part in the National Indigenous Language Forum and Expo to be held at the University of West Australia on October 1 and 2, 1999.

Photo: The FATSIL display at NLLIA's 1996 Brisbane Language Expo brought people from all over the country to speak to the public and to take part in the forum discussion.

Language Access Initiatives Program

THE last edition of the Voice of the Land included more detail on the process for considering Language Access Initiatives submissions. All submissions for funding were assessed by the Regional Office and considered by ATSIC Regional Councils. Submissions were then forwarded to Canberra. A National Advisory Committee was formed to make recommendations on funding priorities to ATSIC at the national level. The inaugural Language Access Initiatives Program National Advisory Committee meeting was held in Canberra on 3 and 4 June 1999.

Barbara McGillivray

Right:Barbara McGillivray from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia is a member of the committee formed to promote national awareness of language maintenance activities.

Students at Pundulumurra College

Pundulmurra College in South Hedland Western Australia is offering a pathway for community members to become formally involved in cultural education.

THE Indigenous Australian Language Workers Program has been developed to ensure that language and culture continue to be taught, and that threatened languages can be supported and strengthened.

My name is Bill Nicholson and I am a descendant of the Woiwurrung speaking people.

I have been working on the project for around 5 months now and have found it very interesting. I am researching the Daungwurrung language from central Victoria, around the Goulburn River catchment.

(L to R) Elva Lindsay, John Boxer, Rhonda Agius and Joshua Bryant at Mansfield Park Primary School.

Kaldowinyeri nganuwe Nankurewanar ngopanar ngrewar warar hikai Ruwe. Wandje lu:ku kringkari arndu milipulun. Nganuwe Ngarrindjerar yange rammin ili lu:ku kringkari ngamuwe our tarno meriwallin ringbalin ai ngaiyulun ngamuwe porlar ngamuwe tungarar. Lun newalengk ngrattin angk nammuldi tungarar inye nganuwe ngrampar mant lu:ku kringkari. lnye auw ngurn our ngrattin nganuwe tungarar inye ngooiyulun nganuwe Porlar. Kalyan elitj ap tumbelin ngurint plaityingin ungai nganuwe Ngarrindjera luk lu:ku kangulandai Ngarrindjera ngurint hikaiy ruwe. Lun hikkainungge ngunuwe tungarar our kangulandjai pultin kitji wal karanye lu:ku multiwallin tungarar ngurint hikaiy Ruwe.

THERE are currently two Commonwealth Government Inquiries relating to indigenous education in Australia, the Senate Inquiry on Indigenous Education and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Rural and Remote Education Inquiry.

PEOPLE from the language network around Australia were saddened by the death early this year of Mrs Kathy Trimmer from Kalgoorlie.

KATHY Trimmer was deeply committed to her work as an Aboriginal linguist at Wangkanyi Ngurra Tjurta Language Centre and also served as a FATSIL delegate for Western Australia.

I am writing to you from a little town near Barcelona in Catalunya (Spain). We've been working in a web- site for three years, creating a virtual community.

"La Web d'Arenys" http://www.partal.com/arenys also welcomes all the foreigners with a little home page, which has been translated by us in 23 languages around the world.

Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Dr John Herron.

IN Parliamentary sittings on June 2nd, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Dr John Herron responded to questions from Senator Margetts, Greens Senator for Western Australia, on the Government's reaction to the bilingual education issue in the Northern Territory.

Lester Coyne
Chairperson
Perth, Western Australia
Mobile 0412994624
PO Box 1249
Perth WA 6105