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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Found this great FREE Australian clipart website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching the web and found this great website with lots of FREE Australian clipart that may be useful. Take a look.
http://www.arthursclipart.org/australasia/australia/page_04.htm



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		<title>Mobile Phone Dictionaries</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/90.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daryn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like some advancements have been made in this area, at present a Kaurna demo dibtionary has been made available.
Here are some links to websites for further information:
http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/2008/07/mobile_phone_dictionaries.html
http://pfed.info/
and an online demo at
http://www.pfed.info/wksite/onlinedemo/onlinedemo.html
Thanks to James Leech for keeping us informed of this



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		<title>Gayarragi, Winangali</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/85.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daryn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Received an email today from Des Crump who has made us aware of this new multimedia resource which has just been made available as a download from the web, here are the details:
Website http://lah.soas.ac.uk/projects/gw/
Excerpt from website:
Gayarragi, Winangali is an interactive multimedia resource for Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay, languages of northern New South Wales, Australia (see pop-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keyman - multilingual keyboard solutions</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/81.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we at ACRA have been struggling with these weird character sets which are used to represent the special and unique sounds of our languages for nearly 8 years now, so it was to my great amazement that whilst at the &#8220;OpenRoad&#8221; conference in Melbourne that I come across an Australian company seemlingly smack bang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Clipart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wiliam Poser recently posted on ILAT a website collection of free clipart, I have done a quick search and easily found some Australian wildlife as an example, not the Koala, but others, so it maybe resourceful to some.
Weblink: http://www.wpclipart.com 



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		<title>Missing in Action - Never</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/79.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well its been a month since my last post and I am sorry that I have not been able to keep people up to date with happenings in the world of Aboriginal Languages and Technology, so I have some time to make up.
At the end of April I was very fortunate to attend the 15th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miromaa 3 - &#8220;Using technology to save our native languages&#8221; - NEW RELEASE, NEW WAY TO GET IT.</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/78.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/78.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Miromaa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you may or may not know, Australia’s traditional languages are the most at risk in the world to disappear, somewhere in the world every 2 weeks a native language disappears.
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Did you also know that 2008 is the International Year of Languages.
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At Arwarbukarl CRA (ACRA) we have been developing a program called Miromaa over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welsh language-technology gets global recognition</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/77.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/77.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb 27 2008 by Tomos Livingstone, Western Mail 
TECHNOLOGY aimed at helping businesses use the Welsh language has been so successful it is being copied as far afield as China and Sri Lanka.
A small team at Canolfan Bedwyr, a unit at Bangor University, has for several years been creating Welsh-language computer spell-checkers, screen readers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Indigenous Languages Institute 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/76.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/76.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Straight from the ILI website
As part of LingFest 2008, the Indigenous Languages Institute will run for 3 days: Tues 8 – Thurs 10 July 2008 at the Koori Centre of the University of Sydney. The Indigenous Languages Institute will be a useful forum for a wide range of people working in the area of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t take language for granted</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/74.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/74.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Monica Davis, 16 February 2008, Saturday         addthis_url    = location.href;       addthis_title  = document.title;      addthis_pub    = 'greenpeace';       
More than 7,000 languages will die over the next century, leaving a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliament to say sorry for &#8216;loss&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/73.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/73.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal parliament will apologise for the &#8220;profound grief, suffering and loss&#8221; inflicted on the stolen generations and will vow to never let it happen again.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd tabled in parliament the text of the national apology, which he will formally deliver on Wednesday.
The 344-word apology, based on extensive consultation with indigenous groups, honours Australia&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make a Dictionary with Miromaa &amp; Lexique Pro - Video Tutorials</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/72.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/72.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major goals for any language program/activity is to produce a dictionary, but this can be a painstaking task, we ourself have experienced this pain and have now thought to share with you how we produced our own Awabakal dictionary using Miromaa to gather the language and Lexique Pro to produce the dictionary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ngapartji Ngapartji Sydney Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/71.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/71.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am left speechless after tonight seeing the Ngapartji Ngapartji performance in Sydney, you cannot put into words as of yet what was experienced by Dianna and I, all I can see is that it blew all expectations out of the water, every single person, every moment was awesome.
Every Aboriginal nation has a story to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aboriginal archive offers new DRM</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/70.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/70.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new method of digital rights management (DRM) which relies on a user&#8217;s profile has been pioneered by Aboriginal Australians. The Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive has been developed by a community based in Australia&#8217;s Northern Territory.
It asks every person who logs in for their name, age, sex and standing within their community.
This information then restricts what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miromaa 3 Sneak  Preview</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/69.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/69.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
You may or may not have heard about the computer program “Miromaa” that we have developed. For those that have not here is a quick brief:
Miromaa is a computer program which is aimed at empowering Indigenous people to enable us to best utilise technology in the task of researching, recording, reclaiming and disseminating our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreamtime a reality as ancient language returns</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/68.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/68.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Awabakal Language]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The extinct Awabakal Languages&#8217;s strong rhythms struck local Aboriginal Daryn McKenny as he revived ancient words over the past eight years&#8230;
This story appeared in the Sun Herald, whilst some Aboriginal terminology and sentences we would have liked worded differently, it neverless helps get languages on the agenda with the wider community.
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		<title>International Year of Languages 2008 - Blog and Wiki site</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/67.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/67.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Osborn posted a comment which mentions his blog, it looks like he has put all the info that he is gathering together via his wiki website.
This is an extract from Don&#8217;s site:
This is a temporary webpage for gathering information on strategies and methods for supporting the International Year of Languages (IYL). It is intended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language crusaders revitalize dying tongues</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/66.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/66.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a story that was forwarded to me by Kevin Lowe, it mentions the great work that First Voices is doing in Canada.
Original story
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As Canada&#8217;s native dialects slide toward obsolescence, aboriginal groups are finding resourceful ways to ensure linguistic posterity
PATRICK WHITE
From Wednesday&#8217;s Globe and Mail
January 16, 2008 at 4:36 AM EST
For a brief time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/65.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/65.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary. A
group of Elders are asking individuals to sign the Declaration, and they
would like to reach one billion signatures internationally so that all
of us may send a powerful message to our leaders - local, national, and
international.
Please consider signing it at
http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org/ and spread the word to other
people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the celebration of 2008, International Year of Languages</title>
		<link>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/64.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.miromaa.org.au/blog/archives/64.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Original Article
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The Organization is fully aware of the crucial importance of languages when seen against the many challenges that humanity will have to face over the next few decades.
Languages are indeed essential to the identity of groups and individuals and to their peaceful coexistence. They constitute a strategic factor of progress towards sustainable development and [...]]]></description>
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