Indigenous language expert is top Territorian (fwd link)

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Indigenous language expert is top Territorian

By Phoebe Stewart
Updated Fri Nov 12, 2010 10:31am AEDT
Australia

An Indigenous language expert has been named the Northern Territory's
Australian of the Year.

Professor Michael Christie was honoured at a ceremony in Darwin last
night for his work on Indigenous languages in east Arnhem Land.

He worked as a linguist at Milingimbi and Yirrkala in the 1970s and
1980s and, along with Yolngu elders, established a Yolngu studies
program at Charles Darwin University.

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