Our Projects

The guide fills a gap in planning and offers ways of tracking how all aspects of their projects are developing over years. Currently, projects tend to focus on specific areas without taking into consideration the range and time of what is actually involved. The guide outlines possible paths and aspects that should be considered when […]

VACL are very pleased to announce the completion of the collation of significant historic Kulin material from the papers of William Thomas made possible through a grant from the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust. William Thomas was Assistant Protector of Aborigines at Port Phillip and Victoria from 1839 to 1867. The 10,000 pages of the William

VACL was engaged by the Victorian Curriculum & Assessment Authority (VCAA) to undertake a statewide consultation with communities & stakeholders for the development of a curriculum framework for the delivery of Indigenous Languages in Schools to students from Prep to Year 10. Aboriginal Languages, cultures and reclamation in Victorian schools is a booklet which provides

VACL has developed an Education Kit designed to be distributed to Victorian Schools to raise an awareness and understanding of Indigenous Languages with a focus on Victorian Languages. The Kit is called “Wurrung Wurrung” which means ‘many languages’ in Eastern Kulin. The kit does not aim to teach languages to children rather talk about the

The Malmsbury Language Program that was run by the Victorian Aboriginal Language Corporation for Languages (VACL) was a very worthwhile program for our youth who had come into contact with the Justice system. The boys came from both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. The program gave them a connection to their language and culture

The Gunnai Yirruk-Tinnor Community Language Program has been creating childrens story books written in language. These can be used as a teaching aid and as a way to bring language into childrens lives in a fun educational manner.

VACL has put together a short film highlighting the history of Indigenous languages in Victoria, the impact of colonisation and interviewing the language workers from across the state showcasing what is happening today in language revival and what language means to individuals. The film will go into an “Education Kit” that is currently being developed

In 2004 Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative released the teacher’s guide Learning Wathaurong as an interactive CD-ROM with an accompanying booklet. This is the result of collaboration between Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative Ltd and Multilocus Interactive Pty Ltd with funding provided by the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait

In 2002 VACL commissioned the creation of a Database and Dictionary of Aboriginal Placenames of Victoria. The database is available on CD-ROM and is also available in hard copy as a single full volume or four regional volumes. The four regions are: South West VictoriaNorth-West VictoriaCentral VictoriaEast & North-East Victoria

As extracted from early surveyors reports: Flora and Fauna Names of Victoria Report is an initiative of the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages and the Victorian Biodiversity Strategy. The researcher Ms Sue Wesson examined material from the archives of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), the State Library of Victoria, the Victorian Public

The Woolum Bellum KODE School at Kurnai College Morwell, in partnership with the local Koorie Community officially launched the Nambur Ganai Language Interactive CD-ROM in 2000 in Melbourne at the Koorie Heritage Trust. The Nambur Ganai CD-ROM is the brain child of two Koorie teachers from Gippsland, Doris Paton and Lynette Dent, and evolved from

VACL has collaborated with Brendan Kennedy from the Tati Tati Aboriginal Corporation in Robinvale to publish his songs and stories translated into traditional Tati Tati, Mutti Mutti and Wadi Wadi languages of North Western Victoria. Brendan has written dozens of songs and stories, from which nine were chosen to be included in this book, sharing