{"id":3618,"date":"2007-08-27T22:27:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/this-weeks-langguj-bagarap\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:04","slug":"this-weeks-langguj-bagarap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/this-weeks-langguj-bagarap\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s langguj bagarap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bagarap (1) how not to read census numbers<\/b><\/p>\n

Uncertain future for town’s new arrivals<\/a>
\nSimon Kearney, Yuendumu | August 27, 2007
\nLIFE will be a lottery for the 25 children born this year in the remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community of Yuendumu.
\nBased on last year’s census, it is likely that only two of these children will finish Year 12 and five of them will grow up without any command of the English language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Kearney must have done is take the percentage of all Yuendumu inhabitants who don’t speak English, and base his 5\/25 figure on that. Conveniently forgetting that most of the non-English speaking Warlpiri are old people. Kids learn English at school.<\/p>\n


\nBagarap (2) Pitjantjatjara Babelfish didn’t take the bait <\/b>
\nJudging by the police translation of the Haneef Urdu chatroom conversation, the Babelfish is the translator of first resort for national security cases. For Indigenous sexual abuse cases though, there’s no Babelfish interpreter, as this ABC story shows. <\/p>\n

Judge angered by lack of interpreters<\/a>
\nPosted Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:33pm AEST
\nA Supreme Court judge has expressed outrage at a ‘highly unsatisfactory’ shortage of Indigenous interpreters.
\nJustice Robyn Layton had been due to sentence two brothers today for raping a girl in the An<\/u>angu Pitjantjatjara lands in outback South Australia, about three years ago.
\nBut the men, in their 20s, speak little English.
\nJustice Layton said a male translator had been arranged earlier in the week.
\nBut just an hour before today’s hearing, the interpreting service confessed that it had not been able to find anyone suitable.
\nThe judge said the shortage of interpreters throughout the case had led to a waste of resources in every sense, including emotionally.
\nThe sentencing is now set down for next Friday but Justice Layton concedes that there is still no interpreter confirmed.
\nAt another hearing, Justice John Sulan released a 27-year-old Aboriginal man a fortnight ago because there was no interpreter for mental assessments or legal interviews in the nine-month-long case. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nSupposedly the “Intervention” is putting some money into NT interpreter services. Maybe the Federal Government’ll get around to spending it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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