Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to speak again.

Leave granted.

I have some short supplementary comments now that others have arrived in this chamber. I just want to back up the member for Gellibrand and acknowledge his deep work in this space. We are working to make sure that Bahasa Indonesia continues to be taught in Australian schools—in primary schools, following on to secondary schools and into university—so that we can really develop our expertise and our economic relationship with Indonesia. I also want to thank him for acknowledging the centuries old relationship between the First Peoples of north-east Arnhem Land, in particular, and the north of Australia with people from Makassar. Those Bahasa words are still used with reverence today. In north-east Arnhem Land, many people who speak Yolngu Matha substitute words like 'money' with words like 'rupiah'.

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