Senior Australian of the Year: Racing against Time
95 years young ‘Big Boss’ Laurie Baymarrwangga has
launched a new project amid renewed calls to save Australia’s threatened
indigenous languages. The Senior Australian of the year is working hard on a
trilingual Yan-nhangu Dictionary Publishing
Project that she hopes will be distributed to
every primary school in Australia. A unique and profoundly important project.
Working from her homeland on remote Murrungga Island she believes this three
language learning resource will protect her rare language Yan-nhangu, and help
promote the living language Dhuwal/a, (7000 speakers). It will also encourage
English-bilingual teaching and indigenous language education across Australia.
Filled with colour pictures, ecological knowledge, art, songs
and stories of country that are the real jewels of our distinctive national
cultural heritage. Her amazing life story ‘Big
Boss: Race against Time’ will screen on Sunday the 13th of May
at 1.30pm on the ABC’s Message Stick Program.
Details can be found at
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