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At the crossroads... Productive Diversity

Joseph Lo Bianco.

Joseph Lo Bianco, Chief Executive, National languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, talks on languages and the Australian Economy.

Created:

1996

Date Added:

19 July 2002

Source:

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1996.

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

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Length:

39 secs

Transcript

JOSEPH LO BIANCO
Chief Executive, National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia

Given the centrality of English in public life in Australia, we can actually promote, encourage and support the retention, learning and use of other languages. At the same time as all that's going on domestically with multiculturalism, we have a pragmatic, commercial need because we live in the Asia-Pacific region. The economy of Australia is very dramatically integrated now, and will increasingly be, into the Asia-Pacific region. And this is a dynamic trading section of the world, in fact easily the most rapidly growing economic zone in the world. So this gives a sort of a national interest dimension to the learning of languages as well.

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1996.