Poetsch and McNaboe's chapter in the book provides an overview of an adult Wiradjuri language class delivered at Dubbo College that was developed in collaboration with lingual academics and the local Wiradjuri Community. Poetsch works with the Aboriginal Curriculum Unit of NSW Board of Studies, and McNaboe is a Wiradjuri speaker and school teacher. Together they reflect on how the successes of adult community education programs could be fed into State schooling through the Aboriginal Languages K-10 Syllabus. 

Diane McNaboe and Susan Poetsch, 'Language revitalisation: community and school programs working together' in John Hobson et al (eds), Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's indigenous languages (Sydney University Press, 2010) 216

Laws and policies in the 19th and 20th centuries prevented Aboriginal children from speaking and learning their language. More recent laws and policies have attempted to address this.