Australians will go to the polls on Oct. 14 to vote in a referendum on the inclusion of a formal Aboriginal voice in the nation’s constitution
Australians will go to the polls on Oct. 14 to vote in a referendum on the inclusion of a formal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice in the nation’s Commonwealth Constitution.
Government statistics updated each year show colonization continues to take a toll on Australia’s Indigenous population, whose hundreds of distinct groups make up less than 4% of the population — some 800,000 people in a nation of 26 million. Depending on who wrote that history, the first documented European/Indigenous contact may have occurred when, in 1606, Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon landed on the western side of Cape York Peninsula.
In Australia, voting in a referendum, as in an election, is compulsory. A single box is to be provided on the ballot paper, making it a “yes” or “no” vote. The report says: “Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages are the first languages of this continent. This status, and their unique value in the world’s languages, makes it imperative for them to be learned, taught, used, and protected from their current state of endangerment. School programmes have much to contribute to the health and vitality of Indigenous languages.”
About 12% of programs are second-language learning programs, where a language is taught to learners in the languages area of the school curriculum. In this type of program, students have little or no assumed knowledge of the target language.
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