Torres Strait Islanders

I'm really impressed.

So in your bio, say if one looks you up on the internet, you state your positionality to your research, stating you are a non-Indigenous educator focusing on making the education system culturally and linguistically responsive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and migrant students.

Can you talk a bit about the importance of positionality?

Yeah, absolutely.

The United Nations has declared 2022 to 2032 the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.

The aim is to focus attention to Indigenous languages, to protect and promote them worldwide.

You, yourself, have co-edited a special issue for the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics journal, together with Robin Ober and Alistair Harvey, with the title Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Learning.

Can you share some of the highlights of this collaboration, please? Thanks.

I'm really impressed.

So in your bio, say if one looks you up on the internet, you state your positionality to your research, stating you are a non-Indigenous educator focusing on making the education system culturally and linguistically responsive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and migrant students.

Can you talk a bit about the importance of positionality?

Yeah, absolutely.

The United Nations has declared 2022 to 2032 the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.

The aim is to focus attention to Indigenous languages, to protect and promote them worldwide.

You, yourself, have co-edited a special issue for the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics journal, together with Robin Ober and Alistair Harvey, with the title Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Learning.

Can you share some of the highlights of this collaboration, please? Thanks.

And there were people there who were supportive.

That's the difference, okay? The Italian community, like any community, whether it's the Aboriginal community, the Torres Strait Islander community, You know, the Afghans community, there's a whole range of opinions, you know.

Not all Italians are the same.

Not Aboriginal people are the same.

That's right.

Yes.

Well, once they killed all the Aboriginals in Torres Strait Islander.

Well,

Speech Pathology Australia's office sits on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and our staff and members work on traditional lands all across Australia.

Speech Pathology Australia recognises the central role that language plays in connecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with culture, country and community and the interwoven nature of health and social and emotional wellbeing.

We recognise that the traditional owners of lands across Australia have been here since time immemorial and that their sovereignty over this land was never ceded.

Today I'm recording from the lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

I pay my respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners.

As generative artificial intelligence or a gen AI becomes more visible in our work, it also raises important ethical questions like when is it appropriate to use these tools? How do we ensure that the information they provide is accurate and safe? And how do we balance the potential benefits with the risk? Today, I'm joined by the authors of an article exploring the role of Gen-AI in speech pathology practice with a particular focus on aphasia.

Their work uses a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats or SWOT framework to examine how these tools might support assessment, intervention and communication in real world practice.

The Federal Government's Indigenous Affairs Policy have faced intense scrutiny at the Senate Estimate hearings in Canberra.

Officials from the Attorney-General's Department have been grilled by Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe over youth detention and the treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody.

During the Estimates hearing, Senator Thorpe demanded answers about recent allegations of female inmates being shackled during childbirth.

as well as Indigenous children being strip searched.

I'd like to acknowledge that this episode of the Teach NSW podcast was recorded at Parramatta Public School on the homelands of the Dharug people.

I'd like to pay respect to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples listening today.

Welcome to the Teach NSW podcast, a podcast by teachers for teachers.

Hi, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Teach NSW podcast.

In addition to cancellation penalties, more than 2 million payment suspension notices are issued each year, with more than half being overturned, prompting the Commonwealth Ombudsman to raise concerns over whether payment suspensions are being applied lawfully.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are significantly overrepresented among those who receive payment cancellation penalties and receive around 30% of all payment suspensions.

The Commonwealth Ombudsman noted in his second investigation that the Employment Secretary is able to exercise discretion not to cancel payments in these circumstances.

However, neither Department nor Services Australia have a process to ensure that a person has other income or will not be thrown into financial crisis or homelessness if their payment is cancelled.

That should be honoured.

These are parts of our training as Aboriginal peoples, Torres Strait Islander peoples that live a certain life and to be able to share that embodiment of lived experience through the dance practice that I've been developing with the company that I've been privileged to work with forever.

30 years with diverse artists from across the world is is really key and core to to what it is we we try to encourage in our artists so as as a child I was very much connected to my imagination very much allowed to engage with things that kind of fed the creative juices that were calling to me and and You know, I was so privileged to, you know, my uncles were amazing storytellers through song and, you know, falling asleep as a child around the campfires or, you know, the fires in the backyard of my grandmother's or even on my mother's side, there were the amazing storytellers that would... you know open your world just by telling a story you know could be spooky story could be funny story um could be through a song could be you know that kind of imagination that was awoken in in those moments as as a young child stayed and lived with me for for a long time and and not just me like half of the family you know like there's so many of us that is a big

family