The best way to know about who we are and what we do I suppose would be to read below what we get up to.

18/9/2008

Media Release

Software saves ancient tongues

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29/5/2008

Media Release

Arwarbukarl and Miromaa win Australian Community ICT Award for software development

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22/4/2008

The race is on to save Indigenous languages and the Hunter is leading the way...

Grandmother Aunt Phyllis is learning to speak Awabakal for the first time - the local Indigenous dialect once spoken here in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie district before it disappeared. To her knowledge, her father was one of the last known speakers, but when he died, so did his language and like many other Awabakal descendants she has little recollection of dialect once heard on this land.
Online Link - http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/04/21/2223001.htm

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29/3/2008

Talking in Tongues

In Newcastle, the Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association is building technology that allows Indigenous communities to rebuild language and has trained 20 communities around Australia in how to use it, with sponsorship from Microsoft.
Online link - http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/talking-in-tongues/2008/03/28/1206207395354.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2

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20/1/2008

Dreamtime a reality as ancient language returns

The extinct Awabakal Languages's strong rhythms struck local Aboriginal Daryn McKenny as he revived ancient words over the past eight years...

This story appeared in the Sun Herald, whilst some Aboriginal terminology and sentences we would have liked worded differently, it neverless helps get languages on the agenda with the wider community.

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November 2007

Microsoft Innovation Award

We received runner-up in this very challenging competition

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15/10/2007

How technology can save dying languages

A small cultural association in Newcastle might just be the first to develop a computer program aimed directly at Indigenous communities to save and teach traditional languages.
Online link - http://www.abc.net.au/northqld/stories/s2060162.htm

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6/9/2007

Languages to live longer

Featured in the Green Guide liftout of The Age today was an article named ‘Languages live longer’. The article talks about how Arwarbukarl developed a computer program called Miromaa to assist in the rate of language loss for Aboriginal languages and Miromaa a back end database for a website currently under development named ‘ourlanguages’.

Online Link - http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/languages-to-live-longer/2007/08/18/1186857828354.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

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