Cultural sophistication and economic complexity need to be understood as intrinsically linked. It’s time for Australia to take language learning more seriously. Last week I wrote about how Australia’s ...

Before colonisation, many hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages thrived across Australia. Now, just over a dozen are learned as a first language. Estimates of exactly how many ...

UNESCO’s International Year of Indigenous Languages recently came to an end after a year of celebration of linguistic diversity. And with a “decade of Indigenous languages” now under consideration, it ...

It took a while for Australians to appreciate their linguistic distinctiveness. The editors at the Australian National Dictionary Center work to document it. By Damien Cave CANBERRA, Australia — ...

It may be a massive leap for Australia to jump beyond its current linguistic lassitude, but the increasingly difficult strategic terrain requires Canberra to think big and be bold. Cultural ...

National rugby players sang an Indigenous version of Australia’s national anthem for the first time on Saturday, a move that won widespread praise and spurred calls to make it a permanent feature at ...