Thanks for pointing to this article Jo - Perhaps Albo's Voice debacle has been a good thing. Perhaps this is what Australians need, to have the eyes opened and hit with real information. May be this is the time, that one opportunity, for the Aboriginals to be really heard, by publicly exposing the fraud. They just need a real avenue to be really heard.
What an extraordinarily beautiful piece of writing. And with "swang" you revived our oxygen starved past tense. What a story and a challenge. I am intrigued by what lies behind this.
Hey Josephine, wonderful writing and I agree wholeheartedly with your vision of a united Australia that has no place for the criminals recklessly attempting to divide us by magnifying differences, while they get UN/WEF coin in their bank accounts. I'm tired of their wickedness we never seem to get a break from their constant attacks on our sovereignty.
Some of your essays, like this one, are heart breaking and make me feel like crying.
I do cry on the inside. It's so unjust.
I am a Darwin boy, a Northern Territorian - and proud of it.
Darwin is a city that is an extremely multicultural mix and has been since its early days, and when I was a child we had a large aboriginal community mixed in with us. All my schools had large numbers of aboriginal children attending. And then I spent my last 2 years at boarding school, where the majority were aboriginal children from all over the Northern Territory. The 1970s.
And I have watched in confusion at what has happened to our aboriginal community over the decades, and reading your essays helps to fill in the gaps and create an understanding of how our government policies have been systematically degrading their lives and opportunities.
So thank you for all your efforts - you deserve a lot more recognition.
On a brighter note - may I ask your opinion of the English literacy skills of the aboriginal children in the remoter areas around the country? How does it rate to children growing up in the towns and cities for example?
The reason I ask that question is because I have developed a revolutionary method for teaching English reading and pronunciation - which I call PIPPASS™ and it is so simple it begs the question why hasn't it been done before. In fact the education system has been dumbing down all our children - the "whole of language" methodology was an attack on literacy, and replaced a perfectly functional system of phonics.
I developed PIPPASS™ over several years, while I obsessively wrote my first book in Thai, to help Thai people to improve their English pronunciation - which is the key to learning the language. (Any language for that matter). This is what I was doing pre-Covid, before the lockdown policies wiped out everything I had built up over years.
In 2023 I am going to attempt to get back to what I was doing pre-Covid, which was to convert all my resources into English, and create a book version that is international for my methodology and focus on training English teachers to use it. Even though my original focus was on helping Thai people, it is a universal method that can be used by any one learning to read and pronounce English words.
My earlier question about the aboriginal communities is why I have been telling you about this.
When I get my first resources done in English, which hopefully will be in the second half of 2023 I want to focus on getting it out there - and I had on my list for Australia the possibility of helping aboriginal children, or adults for that matter, to improve their English reading literacy.
Here's a link to a crowdfunding project we did at the end of 2018 before we published mid 2019, if you scroll down the page there is a topic "More about PIPPASS™" - which explains what it is all about.
If you are interested we may be able to find some way to collaborate to help our fellow Australians.
Thanks for pointing to this article Jo - Perhaps Albo's Voice debacle has been a good thing. Perhaps this is what Australians need, to have the eyes opened and hit with real information. May be this is the time, that one opportunity, for the Aboriginals to be really heard, by publicly exposing the fraud. They just need a real avenue to be really heard.
What an extraordinarily beautiful piece of writing. And with "swang" you revived our oxygen starved past tense. What a story and a challenge. I am intrigued by what lies behind this.
Perfectly stated Josephine.
I have to wonder if the varoa mites problem is part of the oligarchy agenda too.
Hey Josephine, wonderful writing and I agree wholeheartedly with your vision of a united Australia that has no place for the criminals recklessly attempting to divide us by magnifying differences, while they get UN/WEF coin in their bank accounts. I'm tired of their wickedness we never seem to get a break from their constant attacks on our sovereignty.
Hi Josephine,
Some of your essays, like this one, are heart breaking and make me feel like crying.
I do cry on the inside. It's so unjust.
I am a Darwin boy, a Northern Territorian - and proud of it.
Darwin is a city that is an extremely multicultural mix and has been since its early days, and when I was a child we had a large aboriginal community mixed in with us. All my schools had large numbers of aboriginal children attending. And then I spent my last 2 years at boarding school, where the majority were aboriginal children from all over the Northern Territory. The 1970s.
And I have watched in confusion at what has happened to our aboriginal community over the decades, and reading your essays helps to fill in the gaps and create an understanding of how our government policies have been systematically degrading their lives and opportunities.
So thank you for all your efforts - you deserve a lot more recognition.
On a brighter note - may I ask your opinion of the English literacy skills of the aboriginal children in the remoter areas around the country? How does it rate to children growing up in the towns and cities for example?
The reason I ask that question is because I have developed a revolutionary method for teaching English reading and pronunciation - which I call PIPPASS™ and it is so simple it begs the question why hasn't it been done before. In fact the education system has been dumbing down all our children - the "whole of language" methodology was an attack on literacy, and replaced a perfectly functional system of phonics.
I developed PIPPASS™ over several years, while I obsessively wrote my first book in Thai, to help Thai people to improve their English pronunciation - which is the key to learning the language. (Any language for that matter). This is what I was doing pre-Covid, before the lockdown policies wiped out everything I had built up over years.
In 2023 I am going to attempt to get back to what I was doing pre-Covid, which was to convert all my resources into English, and create a book version that is international for my methodology and focus on training English teachers to use it. Even though my original focus was on helping Thai people, it is a universal method that can be used by any one learning to read and pronounce English words.
My earlier question about the aboriginal communities is why I have been telling you about this.
When I get my first resources done in English, which hopefully will be in the second half of 2023 I want to focus on getting it out there - and I had on my list for Australia the possibility of helping aboriginal children, or adults for that matter, to improve their English reading literacy.
Here's a link to a crowdfunding project we did at the end of 2018 before we published mid 2019, if you scroll down the page there is a topic "More about PIPPASS™" - which explains what it is all about.
If you are interested we may be able to find some way to collaborate to help our fellow Australians.
Best regards
Ivan
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/41522978/pippasstm-lets-speak-english-and-stop-speaking-tin?ref=creator_nav