50 years strong: bilingual teaching is celebrated in Yirrkala

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From rogue educators… to leaders in remote education. Yirrkala community leaders in the Northern Territory are celebrating 50 years of bilingual education at the local government School where elders and teachers defied government orders to dismantle the two- way education system.

Karen Weston is the chief executive of the Northern Territory's education department.

It’s been half a century since bilingual schools were established in the Northern Territory under the Commonwealth. “We don’t want the language to loose because language is very important it’s our identity… who we are where we come from and we can’t take that away.”Mark Monaghan is the NT's education minister.

 

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