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Tinsley believes more needs to be done than just making languages compulsory again.
Right now, around 330,000 young people drop languages at 14. Making languages compulsory is setting them up for failure".
The world of mobile apps and online research tools are making languages, their history and their context more accessible to non-Indigenous Australians who wish to better understand and interact with the oldest continuing culture in the world.
It stops short of making languages compulsory for the younger age group, but means a child must be offered local teaching provision if their local school does not have it.
But when the government announced it was making languages optional in 2004, the decision was marked by a sharp downtown in the number of state school pupils choosing to take them.
In September, the government introduced a new curriculum to target the problem, which included making languages a compulsory element of primary school learning, but the impact has yet to be seen.
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