Language policy

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Over the last few weeks, it seems that there's been a minor skirmish going on in the Australian's Higher Education opinion section over language teaching programs in Australian schools. Everyone agrees that Australia should become more multilingual, the issue is which languages should be taught. (How they should be taught and even saving languages

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