Language Power Dynamics in relation to education on mainland Australia and Torres Strait Island

Language Power Dynamics in relation to education on mainland Australia and Torres Strait Island.

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General situation of Aboriginal languages in Australia.

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Number of speakers. Year Speakers Source 2001 1132 2016 ABS Census 2016 6000 2016 ABS Census.

The Stolen Generation and residential schools. - Between 1910 and 1970 Australian government officials forcibly took Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal children from their families and sent them to residential schools or church run missions. - Over the 60-year period approximately 25,000 were taken which equates to about 1 in 3 Indigenous children. - With the programme aiming to eradicate any trace of Indigenous culture, the children were punished for speaking their native languages. - Nearly three decades after this horrible period of Australian history, the Australian government finally offered a formal federal parliament apology. This apology was widely accepted by the Aboriginal and Indigenous people - Every Australian state has a reparations scheme and another 13 years after the apology, the Commonwealth Government announced a reparations scheme for the territories totaling about $280 million..

Hope for a future generation of Indigenous language speakers.

Torres Strait Language Plan. Aims Promote the use of language Standardise orthography Record and document traditional languages Provide training " The revitalisation and maintenance of traditional languages is community owned, community based and community driven"..

Torres Strait Language Plan Community-based education.

the research and the censuses carried out lack in specificity Different attitudes about the traditional languages and creole Community involvement funding.

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