The Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages is a non-profit organisation. FATSIL is the national peak body for community based indigenous language programs in Australia. The organisation was established in 1991 in response to the Australian Language and Literacy Policy, to promote the maintenance, retrieval and revival of indigenous languages, through the support of community based language programs.
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We invite you to join us for the FATSILC AGM and National Indigenous Languages Forum 2009
“From Little Things, Big Things Grow” is the theme for the 2009 FATSILC National Indigenous Languages Forum, to be held in Devonport, TAS, from the 28th to the 29th of November 2009.
The great spirit saw the land was cracked and dry. It was because the Indigenous peoples language no longer washed across it. He took the seed called FATSIL from mans mind and tended to it. He nourished it with the hopes and dreams of the people of the land. The seed grew and blossomed bringing back the language, restoring things as it should be. Yurrawalan.
28th AND 29th November 2009
Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre, 145-151 Rooke Street, Devonport Tasmania
The Broome Shire has accused the West Australian Government of failing to address what it calls the "third world" living conditions of Aboriginal visitors to the town.
Fresh statements from police officers who served on Palm Island, in north Queensland, will be tendered at the reopened inquest into a death in custody.
The coordinator of a children's health program in the Torres Strait, off far north Queensland, says she will call for more funding for the region during meetings in Canberra today.
Aboriginal groups say the Northern Territory and South Australian governments are refusing to take responsibility for the critical shortage of dialysis places in Alice Springs.
The Kimberley Land Council (KLC) says a $500,000 Commonwealth grant will enable Aboriginal people to make the most of job opportunities associated with the Kimberley gas hub.
The State Government is coming under mounting pressure to make an immediate ex-gratia payment to the family of an Aboriginal man who died after a journey in the back of a prison van.
Kimberley MP Carol Martin has accused the WA Police Union president of racial vilification in a complaint lodged with the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Indigenous leader and Australian National University (ANU) professor Mick Dodson has been appointed to a key role at Harvard University in the United States.
