Faith Baisden

There will be a lot of preparation for the meeting, and one of the questions already asked was 'Where do we start with a group of parliamentarians?' The answer, sadly, was 'At the beginning.'

Ngai kawaren budharumbaia kurralbooya

Mununjali man Shane Paulseri summed up the emotion as he felt as he proudly ran the Olympic flame through the main sreet of Beaudesert in South East Queensland on 11 June this year, saying he ran with the spirit of all Australians 

Christabel is coordinator of the Aboriginal Interpreter Service which now employs seven full time and casual interpreters.The service is used by police, legal aid and court services, health and other government bodies in the Territory.

THE final draft of the FATSIL Indigenous Languages Policy Statement and Strategic Plan is now being prepared for publication after its acceptance at the recent Annual General meeting in Adelaide.

In introducing the document, the FATSIL Chairperson, Mr Lester Coyne thanked all those people who have been involved in the formation and development of FATSIL from its inception up to the present time.

Harold Nayda and John Irrington

Harold Nayda (at left) is taking over as coordinator of the language centre at the Institute for Aboriginal Development at Alice Springs from John irrington, (right).John is pleased to be handing his position over to digenous management, and plans to continue working with languages in the Territory.

STATE Delegates were appointed and elections held for FATSIL Executive positions at the AGM in Adelaide. Here we give a short profile of the delegates from Western Australia,Victoria, New South Wales and the Northern Territory.

Dr Patrick McConvell from AIATSIS

Dr Patrick McConvell from AIATSIS presented a draft report on The State of Indigenous Languages in Australia, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Thieberger, for Environment Australia. Dr McConvell spoke of the value of such reports in identifying the areas or individual programs which are operating most successfully, in order to reproduce the best of these programs in other regions.

FATSIL was one of eight indigenous organisations whose promotional material was given out to media at the Sydney Olympics, in bags prepared and distributed by NIMAA (National Indigenous Media Association of Australia.)

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

In early 1999 the NSW Elected Arm resolved that ATSIC should afford a higher priority to meeting the language and cultural needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The NSW Strategic Language Study Report also includes strategies to support the NSW elected arm's strong desire and commitment to promote language and cultural needs in NSW. The strategies focus on issues concerning:

Young Aboriginal Students

Pedagogy is the function, work or art of a teacher, or teaching.

The word pops up often throughout Strong Voices, a new addition to indigenous teaching resources published by Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education in the Northern Territory.