Laurel Williams, I'm from Biripi country which is my home town
is Foster. Regaining and recording languages, where  
a lot of people have come to believe, that there are no 
languages maintained in New South Wales - and we know 
that's incorrect. I'm happy to say that there's a group in 
the Hunter region in New South Wales where I'm currently 
living that is recording the Awabakal language and that
will be excellent if that can be maintained and taught in schools 
- like the New Zealand mob, you know, people speak Maori over there,
black, white or stripey. Wouldn't it be lovely to be 
able to talk to your own countrymen in your own language?
And the same thing is happening with the Biripi language.
So that's exciting, and I think that's where we're going now,
into the future is that we're recognising how important some
of those traditional practices are, but putting them into
a practical contemporary usage and for the languages that's
teaching it in communities and in schools.