{"id":5410,"date":"2011-04-29T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T06:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2011-04-29T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T06:41:47","slug":"a-noteworthy-correlation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/04\/a-noteworthy-correlation\/","title":{"rendered":"A noteworthy correlation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For young people in remote areas of Australia, there&#8217;s a correlation between speaking an Indigenous language and better well-being. That&#8217;s today&#8217;s message from the <em>Australian Bureau of Statistics<\/em>.  Here&#8217;s their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/ausstats\/abs@.nsf\/latestProducts\/4725.0Media%20Release1Apr%202011\">media release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The report found that in 2008, almost half (47%) of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (aged 15\u201324 years) in remote areas spoke an Indigenous language. These young people were less likely to engage in high risk alcohol consumption and illicit substance use, than those who did not speak an Indigenous language. They were also less likely to report being a victim of physical violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What lies behind this correlation is complex and needs a lot of thought. But at the very least it suggests that:<br \/>\n1.  policy-makers need to think twice before steam-rollering through English-only programs in schools where children speak an Indigenous language as their first language.<br \/>\n2.  they should think twice about the longterm costs of policies that drive Indigenous people out of remote communities into the fringe camps of towns, with all the consequent loss of language, connectedness, and sense of belonging, and the easy access to solace in alcohol and drugs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Howard Morphy for showing me this.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For young people in remote areas of Australia, there&#8217;s a correlation between speaking an Indigenous language and better well-being. That&#8217;s today&#8217;s message from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Here&#8217;s their media release. &#8220;The report found that in 2008, almost half (47%) of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (aged 15\u201324 years) in remote areas &#8230; <a title=\"A noteworthy correlation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/04\/a-noteworthy-correlation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A noteworthy correlation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/5410","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=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}