FATSIL Constitution

AGM 2002 (Sydney): Summary of outcomes

Some of the recommendations of the Sydney AGM:

• That FATSIL look at the feasibility of establishing its own operating base.
• That FATSIL strive to ensure that, in any treaty developed for Indigenous Australians, the issue of Indigenous languages being recognized as official Australian languages be enshrined.
• That FATSIL lobby the Northern Territory Government to employ registered interpreters and translators in all Government agencies and statutory authorities where assistance in communication with Indigenous persons is required.
• That FATSIL continues to work toward the development of comprehensive language policies at State and Federal level.
• That FATSIL strive to ensure that all language policies it helps to develop are understood to be "frameworks within which language projects and programs are to be created".
• That FATSIL strive to ensure that in all language policies it helps to develop, Indigenous languages be recognized as official Australian languages.
• That FATSIL consider mounting, and subsequently evaluating, a public education campaign on the state of Indigenous languages (and/or on the rate of global language loss) as a contemporary issue.