Gomeroi man Daryn McKenna helped found the Miramaa Aboriginal Language and Technology Centre, with the Street Warriors’ Abie Wright back in 2003. It’s based in Newcastle, and began as a way to revitalise and preserve the Awabakal language. In those 10 years, the centre has spearheaded the use of the Miramaa programme, which provides a tool for Indigenous communities across the nation, and the world, to help revitalise endangered languages.
The Miramaa centre also hosts the bi-annual Puliima National Indigenous Languages and Technology Forum, which begins this week in Melbourne.
For more info on the forum, click here.