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Voice of the Land - Volume 34

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Voice of the Land - Volume 34

Welcome to our new, revitalised edition of FATSIL’s quarterly magazine, ‘Voice of the Land’! Please continue to write and speak to us. Combining your experiences with more personal stories, in and about language, we hope to share the passion and excitement that we feel about Indigenous languages in this country. Language is culture, and culture is language. It sounds obvious, but language really is the glue that connects us together. It is how we relate to the world and to each other. It encompasses gesture, facial expression, body movement, artistic expression, and sound, as well as the spoken word. Of the 250 languages used across pre-colonial Australia only 145 survive, of which only 18 are actively spoken by multiple generations of a community (the measure which defines a ‘healthy’ language group).

It is something special to speak an Indigenous language in this country and we hope that the colour and space of the new format reflects this. FATSIL is pleased to welcome our new editor, Chris Patterson, and looks forward to working with himas we continue to enhance and enliven Voice of the Land. We would also like to thank our previous editor, Faith Baisden, and wish her all the best in her future work.

John ‘Sandy’ Atkinson,
Bangerang Elder
FATSIL Vice Chairperson.

John 'Sandy' Atkinson

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