Cultural Awareness
Dirty Assumptions
I was recently told a story about a black African visitor to an Australian Indigenous community. ...
Learning the Indigenous Languages of NE Arnhem Land, The Northern Territory
We sometimes get the question from people interested in working with people from North East Arnhe...
The Blame Game.
It is the easiest thing to lay blame. It is also very easy to assume that you are being blamed b...
An Indigenous voice – How is Yolngu law separate from the Governments Law
Here is a YouTube video that is worth watching because it contains the genuine voice of an Indige...
An example of disempowerment- Why dont you talk to us first?
The Elder speaking was quite irate about decisions that had been made by Goverment and organisati...
How do Indigenous Languages help Learning outcomes?
To some we may be beginning to sound like a broken record, always talking about the importance of...
Four hours in English – An Indigenous bilingual teacher’s experience.
A growing group called ‘Friends of Bilingual Learning’ (FOBL) sprang up a few months ...
Four hours in English – The NT Government’s Indigenous ed. plan built on misinformation.
The NT Minister for education argues that Indigenous languages have no place in teaching literacy...
Loss of Indigenous Languages – symptom or underlying cause?
Language is mastery, who ever controls language controls information and those who lack informati...
Cross cultural issues confound Australian justice systems.
An interesting report called “An absence of mutual respect” was released at the begin...
English only Education Part 2 – Transfering meaning
For an Indigenous person on a community where English a second or even sixth language all their p...
English only Education, Part 1- Vocabulary & Word deafness
An English only classroom can mask the problems of not utilising first language knowledge and con...
