The United Nations General Assembly has declared the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. This action plan provides a framework to guide Australia's participation.

The authors of this report examine Taliban leadership use of Twitter in various regional languages and in English. Focusing on three areas — the economy, relationships with other militant groups and neighbouring countries, and the status of women in Afghan society — the authors seek to clarify the messaging broadcast via this medium and to...

This working paper discusses the implications of recent advances in artificial intelligence for knowledge workers, focusing on possible complementarities and substitution between machine translation tools and language professionals.

This report draws upon the literature to determine the economic benefits of Auslan. The report employs a cultural linguistic lens to consider the capability benefits afforded to users of Auslan associated with Auslan access, exposure, and usage. The report then estimates the capability benefits of Auslan, through capability enrichment, where increased capabilities result in the...

This report considers the economic benefits of Auslan accounting for the critical benefits to wellbeing, health literacy, services access, and the productivity of the economy. The research seeks to account for the benefits associated with Auslan as a community-enabling and culturally supportive language. The report finds the impacts of deafness and hearing loss may be...