This book chapter analyses the Aboriginal language programs in NSW schools.

Mari Rhydwen, 'Strategies for doing the possible: supporting school Aboriginal language programs' in Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages (Sydney University Press, 2010)

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.

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Mari Rhydwen, 'Strategies for doing the possible: supporting school Aboriginal language programs' in Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages (Sydney University Press, 2010)

Language revitalisation