%T Vicki Couzens: Preserving Indigenous language in the 21st century %A Vicki Couzens %I Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) %D 2019 %K Aboriginal people (Australia), %K First Peoples, %K First Nations women, %K Aboriginal customs, %K Cultural awareness, %K First Peoples languages, %K Self-determination %U https://apo.org.au/node/230646 %X Dr Vicki Couzens spoke at ANZSOG's Reimagining Public Administration conference on February 20, as part of the 'Year of Indigenous languages’ plenary. The plenary was particularly poignant given 2019 is the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages. “Our language is scarce so we are revitalising it. We're having to re-dream and reinterpret our languages back into our ways of doing and being now in the 21st century. We have to make it relevant,” Dr Couzens said. %9 Video