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| Sarah Verdon and Ben Pham with the Wiradyuri possum cloak |
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| Smoking ceremony |
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| Wiradyuri elders presenting the Vice Chancellor with the new flag |
Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
June 22, 2015
Marra Marra Badhang exhibition
Today we
attended the opening of the Marra
Marra Badhang exhibition at
Charles Sturt University. The exhibition was launched with a smoking ceremony
by Wiradyuri Elders and opened by the Bathurst Mayor and Charles Sturt
University Vice-Chancellor. The exhibition includes the Bathurst
Wiradyuri and Aboriginal community possum skin cloaks, alongside Indigenous artwork from the CSU art collection. The
exhibition is part of the 2015 NADIOC celebrations and the Bathurst Bicentenary.