Thanks Clair! <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Claire Bowern <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clairebowern@gmail.com" target="_blank">clairebowern@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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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" target="_blank">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>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="font-size:12px">Claire</span></div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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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" target="_blank">http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=9373</a></div></div></div></span>
                 
                 
                 
                 
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