Australia: The Aboriginal People

Living the Language Last Modified: 18 Apr 2012 07:18 Aljazeera Australia, which was once home to 200 languages, now suffers from the highest rate of language extinction in the world. Australia suffers from the highest rate of language extinction in the world. Once home to more than 200 languages spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of [...]

Australia To Finally Recognize Aborigines As First People

Written by Ruth Manuel-Logan on January 20, 2012 2:58 pm Australia is ready to make some historic changes to its 200-year-old constitution by requesting its citizens to approve a clause that recognizes Aborigines as the country’s first occupants. In a report handed to the country’s prime minister, Julia Gillard, an expert panel made up of [...]

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