{"id":3550,"date":"2007-03-27T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/03\/victorian-state-government-language-policy\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","slug":"victorian-state-government-language-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/03\/victorian-state-government-language-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian state government language policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Victorian government announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpc.vic.gov.au\/domino\/Web_Notes\/newmedia.nsf\/8fc6e140ef55837cca256c8c00183cdc\/3def66cb569537f8ca2572a600786457!OpenDocument\">its first step towards a policy on Indigenous languages<\/a>.  So, <a href=\"\/blog\/2007\/03\/noel-pearson-on-saving-indigenous-languages\/\">Noel Pearson<\/a> was onto something..<br \/>\nI wonder what&#8217;s on their wishlist? Dual naming of places (that&#8217;ll be slow after the Grampians fiasco)?  More ceremonial language used on ceremonial occasions and in official publications?  Some Indigenous languages to be taught in schools (that will require a big investment in preparing teaching materials and training teachers, to avoid alienating kids)?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a delicate situation &#8211; seeing what can sensibly be done with what has been kept, while recognising what&#8217;s been lost, and acknowledging the grief over this.  Oh, and presenting the languages in a way which doesn&#8217;t make them seem like dusty old boomerangs in a cupboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Victorian government announced its first step towards a policy on Indigenous languages. So, Noel Pearson was onto something.. I wonder what&#8217;s on their wishlist? Dual naming of places (that&#8217;ll be slow after the Grampians fiasco)? More ceremonial language used on ceremonial occasions and in official publications? Some Indigenous languages to be taught &#8230; <a title=\"Victorian state government language policy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/03\/victorian-state-government-language-policy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Victorian state government language policy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-linguistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}