Indigenous Australians experience poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. They are sick more often, die younger and are at higher risk of serious health complications, including heart ...

Imagine asking someone to move their "left foot" and receiving a puzzled look, not because they misunderstood you, but ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...

Of the world's 7,000 languages, it is estimated 50% to 90% will no longer be spoken in the next 50 to 100 years. The majority under threat are languages spoken by Indigenous peoples around the world: ...

Professor Debra Dank has spent four decades proving that Aboriginal English isn’t “broken” but represents sophisticated communication systems that teachers still fail to understand. For Dr Debra Dank, ...

More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that transcribe speech into written words. These technologies enable the devices ...