The Koori Mail 27.8.2009
Children in the Newcastle, Lower Hunter and Lake Macquarie areas of NSW are getting an introduction to the local Awabakal language with the launch this month of Lenny and the Big Red Kinan.
The Koori Mail 27.8.2009
Children in the Newcastle, Lower Hunter and Lake Macquarie areas of NSW are getting an introduction to the local Awabakal language with the launch this month of Lenny and the Big Red Kinan.
Newcastle Herald 18.9.2008
Hunter people live surrounded by Aboriginal words, even though so many of the original languages of Australia have disappeared.
ABC Newcastle 21.4.2008
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.
Microsoft Australia, 7.4.2008
[Note: Miromaa Aboriginal Language & Technology Centre came Runner Up in this very challenging competition...]
Sydney Morning Herald 29.3.2008
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.
TheSun Herald 20.01.2008
The extinct Awabakal Languages's strong rhythms struck local Aboriginal Daryn McKenny as he revived ancient words over the past eight years...
ELIMATTA Newsletter 01.12.2007
Daryn McKenny from the Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) gave a passionate demonstration called Modern Ways for Ancient Words at the 9th Australian Computer Conference for Seniors which was held at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney in August.
ABC 15.10.2007
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.
Lake Macquarie News13.9.2007
The technical tools of today are being put to use to keep alive the noble Awabakal Language, once spoken by the Indigenous communities around Lake Macquarie.
Newcastle Herald 12.9.2007
Many Aboriginal Languages are all but extinct and many are in danger of falling silent forever as the last generation of speakers grows old.
The Age 6.9.2007
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’.
National Indigenous Times 11.10.2006
The work of the Indigenous Creative Enterprise Centre (ICEC) in Newcastle has been given a boost with the donation of 8 laptop computers by Avanade Australia.