Archive for October, 2007

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Lahan Wagiman

Bulanjdjan just reminded me of something I have wanted to do for a while now, and this afternoon I managed to do it. What I’m referring to is using Google Earth to map a linguistic boundary, to show where a language was traditionally spoken, or to show which land is traditionally associated with which language [...]

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Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Linguistics on the Bus

After my recent blogiversarial lamentations that I’ve strayed away from my original intention of blogging about linguistics and languages and focusing more on politics and indigenous affairs, I feel re-inspired to write about linguistic curios a little more. So here’s a purely matter-of-fact, non-partisan linguistic post. On the bus this morning, I noticed a sign on [...]

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

CDEP changes keep hitting communities

It’s rare that a week should go by without there being some massive indictment of the Brough/Howard Intervention in the Northern Territory. This week is no exception. First, we had multiple calls for Major General Dave Chalmers to resign as the head of the Task Force on the basis that he is a military man, [...]

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