I'll highlight that the 2007 National Intervention Strategy has failed our country's children, with regards to teaching, preserving their language and culture. ... National policies such as 'Closing the Gap' on provision for youth has become a mainstay for efforts to reduce social inequality undoing the effects of social exclusion. ... The most disadvantaged Indigenous Australians live in remote areas of Australia (National Indigenous Languages Survey Report, 2005), it is these people that have been failed by all stakeholders in not developing these communities in order to...

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These are the Constitution, Parliamentary democracy, freedom of speech and religion, English as the national language, the rule of law, acceptance and equality. ... Social equity allows us all to contribute to the social, political and economic life of Australia, free from discrimination, including on the grounds of race, culture, religion, language, location, gender or place of birth; and 1 Benefits for all - all Australians benefit from productive diversity, that is, the significant cultural, social and economic dividends arising from the diversity of our population. ... With 43% of the ...

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Although the preference was for British and Irish migrants, a small percentage of other white Europeans were also accepted on the understanding that they shed their cultures and languages. ... It was argued by many people that in the interest of national security, it was essential to rapidly increase Australia's population. ... By 1973 migrant groups were forming state and national associations to maintain their cultures, and promote the survival of their languages and heritages within mainstream institutions. ... During a census taken in 1996 it was revealed that 14.6% of Australians, 26...

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These tools used by the British were technology, the introduction of diseases and culture with a specific emphasis on language (Kennedy, 2014). It was the ability of the British to use written and oral communication with other western countries, such as Europe that disadvantaged Indigenous Australians as they were not familiar with the concept of written language. ...

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All of these contribute to our diminishing capacity to shape our national destiny as we are re-colonised by deregulated global capacity. ... The preferential admission of children of migrants to universities under the unfair LOTE (Language Other Than English) bonus ensures Australian children will be disadvantaged and the government will create an educated ethnic elite to take over positions of power and control in Australia. ...

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