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<span style="font-size: 12px;">See </span><a href="http://munanga.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-not-to-report-on-indigenous.html">http://munanga.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-not-to-report-on-indigenous.html</a> for more commentary on this story and how wrong the reporter got the figures.</div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;">Claire</span></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Lack of English in remote communites: crisis or win for local language?</div><div><br></div><div>Tuesday, 17 July 2012</div><div>Produced by Tim Roxburgh</div><div><br></div><div>Story audio [podcast]</div><div><br></div><div>New census data shows that around forty per cent of kids in some</div><div>indigenous communities in remote South Australia do not speak English</div><div>well, or don’t speak English at all. But one expert has warned against</div><div>seeing this as a crisis or as a deficiency among these communities. He</div><div>says the figures may simply show that these communities have a strong</div><div>connection to their own local language and culture.</div><div><br></div><div>Access podcast below:</div><div><a href="http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=9373">http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=9373</a></div></div></div></span>
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