Inequality

For Australia’s Indigenous communities, preserving their languages is a matter of life and death

There is a positive relationship between the sustainability and use of Indigenous language and an Indigenous person’s emotional and physical wellbeing.

There is a positive relationship between the sustainability and use of Indigenous language and an Indigenous person’s emotional and physical wellbeing. Image: REUTERS/David Gray

Yarlalu Thomas
Precision Public Health Fellow, Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases, Roy Hill Community Foundation
Rani Charuruks Ong
Program Manager, Lyfe Languages
Gareth Baynam
Medical Director, Rare Care Centre, Perth Children’s Hospital
Kevin Doxzen
Hoffmann Fellow, Precision Medicine and Emerging Biotechnologies, World Economic Forum LLC
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