More Waste by Australian Government

While the rest of the world is busting its butt to learn English, the language of science, education, business etc, the Australian Government has announced it will squander $9.3 (AUD) million helping retain languages spoken by a handful of people in Australia.

According to the report in the Australian Labor Party's web site:

The Government's new approach to preserving Indigenous language comes as a report found that of the 145 Indigenous languages still spoken in Australia, 110 are at risk of disappearing.

The National Indigenous Languages Survey Report 2005, revealed that the languages under threat are now spoken by only small groups of people, mostly over 40 years old and are at risk of being lost.

How does this expenditure make sense? There are many old languages that have disappeared and nobody cares because we have alternative languages ... like English, which is the National language in Australia. For heaven's sake, even the archaic Roman Catholic church gave Latin the flick decades ago.

When there are hospital queues that a gazelle couldn't jump over, shortages of renal dialysis equipment, research funds for science and medicine have dropped off, our schools and police systems need a boost, how the hell can the idiots in government waste $9.3 million on languages that will do nobody any good?

It just never gets any better.