California Down Under: Indigenous Language Revitalization in New South Wales, Australia. Lowe (Birri-Gubba), K. & Walsh, M. In Language is Life. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Stablizing Indigenous Languages Conference, volume 0, pages 100–115, 2004.
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NSW has made rapid gains in a short period and has received considerable government support. We conclude with some remarks on future directions in NSW.; The state of New South Wales in Australia shares a number of similarities with language revitalization in California as well as some signfiicant differences. In this paper; we provide a brief overview of the Indigenous language situation in NSW. Then we focus on langauge revitalization in NSW particularly over the last five years; with a special emphasis on education. We turn then to the comparison between NSW and California. Although California's efforts have been more sustained and focused over a longer period

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