Indigenous body seeks more funds for language programs (fwd)

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Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 20:50:18  AEDT

Indigenous body seeks more funds for language programs
http://abc.net.au/message/news/stories/ms_news_1501555.htm

A national Indigenous advisory group wants the Federal Government to
increase funding to Aboriginal language programs.

Community leaders from around Australia are meeting in Adelaide to
discuss ways of preserving native languages.

Denise Karpany from the Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Languages Corporation says community-based projects are
suffering.

"This state is thriving in the schools and kindergartens and places like
that, the universities and that, but for the community-based programs,
they're not thriving really," she said.