English is the only language that will assist Aborigines. There is no place for or use for Stone Age, unwritten languages in modern society, particularly when the people paying to revive them have no interest in them or use for them.

Given my ancestry, my native tongue ought to be galic! And given the tide of original settlers, why isn't it also ours!?

That said, I see no harm in folks clinging to their mother tongues? But see no case for ensuring the taxpayer funds it?

When they all have english,, university degrees and self determined economic self reliance, they can fund the preservation of all the stone age relics they want, or consider essential to their cultural identity?

And indeed emphasise those (6 degrees) differences that divide us, as opposed to what we share as human beings, who bleed the some colored blood, pee the same colored urine, eat the same colored food, drink the same colorless life preserving water!

The world has lost enumerable languages and the battling bable it created!

We just do not need to go back there, but move on and forward in increased common purpose unity! Or become another hotbed of division that divides the entire Middle (muddle) East!

Communication in a common universally understood language needs to be first prioritized! Haven't the, we know best do gooders, done enough harm already!? ACADEMICS!
Alan B.

Why should government become involved in the preservation of Aboriginal languages and dialects?
Their continued use should be for cultural and educational,not communication, purposes.

Communication is the reason for a language; the English language is becoming global and is mandatory in many professions, such as aviation.

The attraction and charm of preserving an historic tongue is the skill in fluency, as well as the understanding of the cultural factors which bear upon it. It gives a sense of pride and individuality to those who speak it, particularly if use of the language is decreasing.

I agree with the thinking of Alan B. when he suggests that when they all have english,, university degrees and self determined economic self reliance, they can fund the preservation of all the stone age relics they want, or consider essential to their cultural identity?

The preservation of a culture is a personal and tribal thing, not a legislative one.

Surely we can find some committed SJW will do it for free or for peanuts? Might get a PHD or two and provide a use for their otherwise useless Sociology degrees as well as distract them from bed-wetting over Trump.

What a wonderful idea.

Lets waste more of the money we don't have, & have to borrow on such a productive activity.

Still I suppose the few millions wasted on this will buy a few votes, & probably for less per vote than Turnbull's 50 billion on submarines to be built in South Australia bought

//Surely we can find some committed SJW will do it for free or for peanuts?//

Some already have. For example, in 1834 the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld published 'An Australian Grammar, comprehending the Principles and Natural Rules of the Language, as spoken by the Aborigines, in the vicinity of Hunter's river, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales', followed in 1836 by 'An Australian Spelling Book in the Language spoken by the Aborigines', which together give an excellent account of the Awabakal language. He was attempting to translate the New Testament into Awabakal, in which he was unsuccessful, but thanks to his efforts the majority of the Awabakal language has been preserved for posterity.

I know about all this stuff because it is local history, but I suspect there's probably a few other languages that were preserved mostly intact in the early days of settlement.