<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-size:36px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:39px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif">Dubbo MP Troy Grant welcomes NSW language nests in Wiradjuri</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default">RICK MORTON, THE AUSTRALIAN<br>MARCH 27, 2014 1:46PM</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:22px">
<p style="margin:10px 0px 14px;text-align:inherit"><strong style>A TRADITIONAL Aboriginal language was spoken in the NSW Parliament for the first time in its 190-year history last night as National MP Troy Grant welcomed the government’s quest to preserve indigenous culture.</strong></p>
</div><p style="margin:10px 0px 14px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:19px">The O’Farrell Government has funded five “language and culture nests” in key sites across the state. The first in Dubbo for the local Wiradjuri language was launched last year.</p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px 14px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:19px">“The Wiradjuri nation expands from the Blue Mountains in the east, to Hay in the west, north to Nyngan and south to Albury,” Mr Grant, who is not indigenous, told the house last night during a private member’s statement.</p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px 14px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:19px">“This has been the home of the Wiradjuri nation for more than 40,000 years. In any culture, language forms the foundation of a community. It is how we communicate and how our history is shaped, with stories told and customs and knowledge passed from generation to generation. Language is the way in which our communities evolve.”</p>
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