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What is it about?

In her journal article, Death by a Thousand Cuts: Indigenous Language Bilingual Education Programmes in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1972-1998, Christine Nicholls discusses how politically-driven purge of Northern Territory Aboriginal bilingual programmes has been detrimental for Aboriginal teachers, communities and most of all, school children.

Why is it important?

If we care about bio-diversity, then we need to care equally for linguistic diversity on a global scale. See David Crystal's book Language Death for more - language death/extinction, like species death/extinction is AVOIDABLE....

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