Community Development skills
Recruiting, Training and Supporting Dominant Culture Personnel for Indigenous Communities
The following is a Presentation I made to a ‘Roundtable’ discussion with TEAR Austral...
The Blame Game.
It is the easiest thing to lay blame. It is also very easy to assume that you are being blamed b...
A project in responsive development
We are initiating a new project in developing human enterprise in NE Arnhem Land. This unique pro...
How do Indigenous Languages help Learning outcomes?
To some we may be beginning to sound like a broken record, always talking about the importance of...
Four hours in English – An Indigenous bilingual teacher’s experience.
A growing group called ‘Friends of Bilingual Learning’ (FOBL) sprang up a few months ...
Four hours in English – The NT Government’s Indigenous ed. plan built on misinformation.
The NT Minister for education argues that Indigenous languages have no place in teaching literacy...
Punishing Parents – forcing attendence using welfare
The latest issue before us is a policy presented by Kevin Rudd and Jenny Macklin to suspend the w...
English only Education Part 2 – Transfering meaning
For an Indigenous person on a community where English a second or even sixth language all their p...
English only Education, Part 1- Vocabulary & Word deafness
An English only classroom can mask the problems of not utilising first language knowledge and con...
Local Languages and Effective education
Australia values indigenous languages as shown in our public art, but in practice it is easy to h...
