Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
One Year On
Tomorrow is the first of October, which means two things.
Firstly, it means that the little green box with the date next to the title of my posts will be correctly formatted again, as it appears not to enjoy the length of the word ‘September’ (something I plan to fix when I go self-hosted), but secondly, [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Nothing in particular by jangari
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Wars, Languages and Budgets.
I heard on Lateline last night that the US military is asking Congress to approve a further US$190 billion to fund its “projects” in Iraq and Afghanistan, much to the dismay of Congress:
ROBERT BYRD, DEMOCRAT SENATOR: If the Congress were to approve the President’s revised budget request, the total funding for the war in Iraq will [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Indigenous, Linguistics, Politics by jangari
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Update from Tandanya
Tandanya is the Kaurna name for Adelaide.
I was finally able to get on the internet today after a few days of suffering email and blog-stat withdrawal symptoms. Except it’s not the high-speed wireless broadband that I envisaged. Rather it’s a university access lab that reminds me of what it was like to be a student [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Indigenous, Linguistics by jangari
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
ALS ILC ETC
I’m off to Adelaide on Monday morning for the joint ALS and ILC conferences, which should be very interesting, especially given all the news that indigenous languages have been receiving of late (an insightful discussion of which can be found at Anggarrgoon, twice)¹. Something else that will be discussed in Adelaide is the idea of language [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Indigenous, Linguistics by jangari
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
A bit of reminiscing
I don’t want to be presumptuous about the up-coming election or anything, but since it seems quite probable that the government won’t be re-elected, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the good old days when John Howard wasn’t Prime Minister.
So here’s an extract of his very entertaining appearance on Jack Davey’s radio [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Environment, History, Indigenous, Politics by jangari
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Indigenous Language Education and Indigenous Rights
Today’s Herald contains an encouraging story about the place of indigenous languages in public high schools. Year 8 students at Bourke High School were compulsorily taught Wangkamurra this year, and the results have been positive enough that the State Government is planning on extending the program to more state schools with large enough populations of aboriginal students.
Since Aboriginal [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Education, Indigenous, Linguistics, Politics, The Intervention by jangari
Friday, September 14th, 2007
UN backs Indigenous Rights, Brough whinges
There’s been a lot of whining in the government over the last week. First we had Downer having a hissy fit because Rudd chose to greet Hu Jintao in his native language, then we had Howard crying because no one likes him anymore, and now we have Brough getting all blurry-eyed and tremor-lipped because the [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in History, Indigenous, Politics by jangari
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Howard’s ambiguous intonation
The PM is in trouble. This, we all well know as it’s been covered exhaustively on just about every media outlet for days, but hearing it over and over again makes it no less wonderful.
The country is awash with political commentary right now, so I’m not going to flood the market with any more. However, [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Politics by jangari
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
UN votes on indigenous rights (updated)
The United Nations is due to vote on the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples tomorrow, as I’ve just learned from an article sent out on ILAT.
“Basically, it’s a very wide-ranging declaration that recognizes rights that they already have, such as the right to cultural integrity, the right to education in [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Indigenous, Linguistics, Politics, The Intervention by jangari
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Living Black on The Intervention
I just saw an ad for SBS’s indigenous current affairs program, Living Black, which this week, will air the visit of a survey team’s visit to the community of Yarralin.
I’ll be watching with keen interest, since, having been fortunate enough to witness one such visit last month, I would like to see others’ experience with [...]
