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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 08:00
HAVE YOUR SAY: Laverton Centre Gets Name
LAVERTON residents and Hobsons Bay councillors have decided a community hub by any other name just wouldn't be as sweet.
After calling for community suggestions last July to name the $8 million hub, councillors last month voted in its official title, Laverton Community Hub.
Are you happy with the name?…
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Victorian News
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 13:34
My Voice: Brian Stevens
Indigenous Leadership Network Victoria chief executive Brian Stevens discusses his work.
THE ILNV is a centre for indigenous leadership development and social research that looks at Aboriginal communities in Australia and internationally and asks: ''How do we own our struggles as indigenous people?''
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Victorian News
Monday, 14 March 2011 08:30
Does Moomba Really Mean ‘Up Your Bum’?
At Melbourne’s very first Moomba carnival in March of 1955, my father recalls Sir Reginald Dallas Brooks, opening the proceedings from the banks of the Yarra river. In his crown-appointed role as Governor of Victoria, he made a plummy declaration that ‘moomba’ is an Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together…
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Victorian News
Wednesday, 16 February 2011 14:36
Profile: John Bradley
This academic's best lessons have come from indigenous culture.
When John Bradley's 12-year-old son was killed in a boating accident five years ago, he drew on 30 years spent with indigenous people in Australia's far north to deal with the grief.
''It's weird, but I'm a more contented person now;…
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Victorian News
Friday, 07 January 2011 08:42
Cultural Exchange In Noble Park
Noble Park English Language School students are learning about Aboriginal culture through art.
Student welfare co-ordinator Sebastian Gat aac said about 80 students from various countries worked on pieces for an exhibition about indigenous Australia.
Many students were refugees and ranged from ages 10-18.
Students created Aboriginal-style art, Aboriginal flags…
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Victorian News
Monday, 22 November 2010 12:26
Message Is Music To Brighton East Woman's Ears
A BRIGHTON East resident has created a children’s opera inspired by a popular indigenous dreamtime story.
Nina Sofo is the composer, librettist and producer of Laugh out Loud, a children’s opera inspired by the indigenous dreamtime story Tiddalik the Frog.
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Victorian News
Monday, 15 November 2010 07:31
Push To Get Students Into The World Of Languages
MOST Victorian public primary schools are failing to teach the recommended 150 minutes of languages a week, with Australian students spending less time learning a second language than any other students in the industrialised world.
An Education Department report says only 56 per cent of state primary schools and half…
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Victorian News
Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:08
Technology Rejuvenates Neglected Languages
IT'S TECHNOLOGY'S 21st century whizzbangery that usually grabs the headlines — 3D TV, mobile information systems, social media and the like — but sometimes a new application to an everyday activity is worth mentioning.
Internet users in the West take for granted that they can communicate in the digital world…
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Victorian News
Tuesday, 01 June 2010 10:44
Our Languages in Victorian School's
The Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages has been working with Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) and The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) on a the introduction of local Aboriginal languages into Victorian Schools.
The (DEECD) recently released a 3 year strategy for Language education which…
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Victorian News
Monday, 23 March 2009 15:20
Holding our tongues
We often think that the 'tides of history' have washed away most of the languages in south eastern Australia. But Aboriginal people say those languages are not dead, just sleeping. We hear the stories of three different Aboriginal nations whose languages were declared extinct last century. Incredibly, all those languages…
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Victorian News