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3CR Community Radio
Reema Rattan, Liam Armstrong, Carly Dober and Judith Peppard
How multicultural are we anyway? Community language and cultural diversity
1 seconds Posted Feb 1, 2018 at 7:00 am.
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Misty Adoniou, language and literacy specialist from the University of Canberra, talks about the relationship between multiculturalism and the everyday use of the 250 community languages across the country, and wonders why Australia still suffers from what she calls linguistic paranoia.Then, language revivalist and postgraduate at the University of New England, Callum Clayton-Dixon, a member of the Ambeyan Indigenous clan of northern New South Wales, explains his research work with the Anaiwan Language Revival Program.