Reflections on #NAIDOCWeek: 50 Years of Deadly by language workers and researchers: www.ldaca.edu.au/news/posts/n...

50 Years of Deadly: Reflections from our Chief Investigators and Advisors

We invited several of LDaCA's Chief Investigators, Advisors and collaborators to reflect on the NAIDOC Week 2026 theme.

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"Our findings reveal that Australian media doesn’t just report on childhood multilingualism – it actively constructs and maintains linguistic inequalities through racialised framings. The same linguistic practices are valued entirely differently based on children’s racial position."

Childhood bilingualism is a gift; for some …

*** Naomi Fillmore, Hanna Torsh, Yanisa Jakklom *** Imagine four Australian children playing in a playground. Yu speaks Chinese and English, Jakob speaks Arabic and English, Molly, who is from the …

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Think it’s easy to get a visa to Australia? Or that migrants get government benefits? Think again.

How does Australia’s migration system actually work? 5 common myths busted

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NSW has a Human Rights Bill currently under consideration. We've put together a submission advocating for the inclusion of protections to help ensure people with limited English proficiency can equally access their rights. Endorsements are welcome. Read more @languageonthemove.bsky.social

Rights of People with Limited English Language Proficiency

The New South Wales (NSW) Parliament is currently holding an inquiry into the Human Rights Bill 2025. The Bill proposes to establish a statutory human rights framework for NSW (for non-Australian r…

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Did you know 1 in 5 Australians speak at least 2 languages? There are 250 aboriginal languages alone and we're situated in one of the most diverse areas of the world. The ADF actively trains its personnel in 18 priority languages because it is one of the most useful skills for us to have. #auspol

Researchers studying Australian history mostly use English language sources. But Prof Adrian Vickers FAHA makes use of sources in languages other than English to reveal a more nuanced picture of Australia. humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to build mega prisons to crack down on crime and conduct foreign relations in concert with the Trump administration.

Democracy’s next test: could a Trump-endorsed US citizen become Colombia’s next president?

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Published today. The vowel in 'just' is undergoing an independent sound change, separate from any changes to KIT or STRUT. Filed under the ever-growing category of "things that were supposed to be fun little papers, that unexpectedly ended up taking many years" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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AI will make language barriers disappear – and diminish our understanding of other cultures

Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than information – it is curiosity, intimacy and cultural discovery

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Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

love how there are so many words for drinking straw across latin america that they have to include 11 of them on a nyc sign (i say cañita)

Incisive work from Frank

David Peetz@davidpeetz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“That universities...were able to continue to do so much of their work even under lockdown owed much to the ingenuity of ordinary staff and the adaptability and resilience of students. Meanwhile, many university leaders and managers were found seriously wanting." insidestory.org.au/the-preserva...

New Conversation article out by @baibi and the #EverydayHeritage team, 'Why doesn’t Hobart have a Chinatown?': https://theconversation.com/why-doesnt-hobart-have-a-chinatown-272260 #histodons

Why doesn’t Hobart have a Chinatown?

Early Chinese communities might seem to have left little tangible trace. But such an absence does not necessarily mean the absence of a Chinese history.

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Take a listen. This is the best minute in parliament I’ve witnessed in years! Fantastic point. @ANUausi @VC_ANU Sound up.

📚 BOOK LAUNCH 📚    Come along to the launch of ‘Projecting Voices’! This volume, honouring Jane Simpson, provides cutting-edge research on a wide range of questions in linguistics research.    🗓️ 27 February ⏰ 4.30 pm  📍AD Hope Building 14, ANU   Register 👇 events.humanitix.com/projecting-v...

Book launch - Projecting voices

Date: Friday, February 27, 2026 4.30pm (AEDT): in person for snacks & drinks 5:15 - 6pm (AEDT): in person or online launch

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New #SydneyCorpusLab resource on GenAI (LLMs) in corpus linguistics — for possible use in teaching CL: sydneycorpuslab.com/large-langua...

Large language models (LLMs) in corpus linguistics – Using GenAI with corpora

written by Monika Bednarek The Sydney Corpus Lab recently published a post containing a synthesis of how large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools have been …

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A belated and no fanfare 2025 word of the year for the Centre. We chose 'social media ban'. And for all of you who say it's not a word: may your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down😀 Read all about it in the ANU Reporter. tinyurl.com/2w3afx49

Congratulations to Dr Bruce Moore on becoming an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). Bruce was the director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre from 1994 to 2011. He was the Chief Editor of the Australian National Dictionary (2nd ed. 2016).

🎉 Congrats to the 2025 Rodney Huddleston Prize winners! Alison L. Mount, Jimmie Barker, Roy Barker Jr, Cassandra Sedran-Price, Michael Higgins, Lorina L. Barker, Barton Staggs & Jane Simpson $1,000 prize from Taylor & Francis Open Access!! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... #AJL

several other PhD and postdoctoral posts also available at Bern and Oxford, with David Britain, David Willis and Adrian Leemann www.curlew.info/jobs

PhD funding at York in Forensic Speech Science A PhD scholarship is available as part of the CURLEW project (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales), funded by SNSF. Deadline for applications is 12.00 (GMT), 13.00 (CET) on 20 Feb 2026. curlew.info/jobs/york-ph...