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

Jul 26, 2022

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

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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