A parliamentary report recommends a sweeping overhaul of Asian language education in Australia, saying the lack of knowledge ...

Cultural sophistication and economic complexity need to be understood as intrinsically linked. It’s time for Australia to take language learning more seriously. Last week I wrote about how Australia’s ...

Australia and England are both multicultural countries where hundreds of languages are spoken. However, in both, levels of language learning at school are worryingly low. Australia has seen a major ...

It may be a massive leap for Australia to jump beyond its current linguistic lassitude, but the increasingly difficult strategic terrain requires Canberra to think big and be bold. Cultural ...

43 percent of all spoken languages in the world are endangered and every 14 days another language dies. That’s the harsh reality, and the furious pace of digitalization is certainly not helping, ...

Bluey to be dubbed in Indigenous Australian language for first time - Five episodes will be dubbed into Yolŋu Matha, spoken by Yolŋu communities in north-east Arnhem Land, in Australia’s Northern Terr ...

Simon Birmingham recently announced the government will invest an additional A$11.8 million in a successful preschool language learning program. But, in New South Wales for example, less than 10% of ...