{"id":6758,"date":"2012-05-19T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2012-05-19T21:51:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T10:51:57","slug":"very-long-track-to-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2012\/05\/very-long-track-to-the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Long Track to the Other Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road construction sometimes means new names, new opportunities..  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rta.nsw.gov.au\/roadprojects\/projects\/pac_hwy\/port_macquarie_coffs_harbour\/kempsey_bypass\/index.html\">Kempsey bypass project<\/a> includes a bridge over the Macleay River and Floodplain which, at 2 kilometres long on completion, will be the longest bridge in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>So <em>Yapang Gurraarrbang Gayandigayigu<\/em> Very Long Track to the Other Side&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This is the neat name which, so Amanda Lissarague tells me, the Dhanggati Language Group has come up with, supported by the Macleay Valley Tourist Association Inc, Kemspey Aboriginal Land Council, Dunghutti Elders.  Dhanggati Language Group are a group of Elders who are involved in language revival, and currently doing the Certificate 1 in an Aboriginal Language (Dhanggati) at Kempsey TAFE, taught by Aunty Esther Quinlin, with Amanda&#8217;s support (Muurrbay Regional Language Centre). The Elders are also informing the ongoing research and development of the second edition (yes!) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/dhanggati-reference-book\/\">Dhanggati grammar &#038; dictionary<\/a>.  Aunty Esther Quinlan, Uncle Graham Quinlan and Aunty Cheryl Blair are teaching Dhanggati in Kempsey primary schools.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an alternative proposal from the local RSL, for the name of a fallen soldier from the region. The final decision rests with<\/p>\n<p>The Hon. Duncan Gay MLC<br \/>\nMinister for Roads and Maritime Services<br \/>\nLevel 35 Gov. Macquarie Tower<br \/>\n1 Farrer Place<br \/>\nSydney NSW 2000<br \/>\n office@gay.minister.nsw.gov.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road construction sometimes means new names, new opportunities.. The Kempsey bypass project includes a bridge over the Macleay River and Floodplain which, at 2 kilometres long on completion, will be the longest bridge in Australia. So Yapang Gurraarrbang Gayandigayigu Very Long Track to the Other Side&#8230;. This is the neat name which, so Amanda Lissarague &#8230; <a title=\"Very Long Track to the Other Side\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2012\/05\/very-long-track-to-the-other-side\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Very Long Track to the Other Side\">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-6758","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\/6758","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=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6765,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}