Welcome to my web site.
I am an Australian linguist and language activist whose work is largely concerned with the documentation, revitalisation and maintenance of endangered Indigenous languages. My documentary work and publications have been focused primarily on the endangered Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia. My training activities have taken place in Australia and internationally, in Indonesia, the Netherlands, Canada and the USA.
In 2009, I became the foundation CEO and Training Director at the the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity, which I had co-founded in 2004. In the Training Director’s role, I created RNLD’s Documenting and Revitalising Indigenous Languages (DRIL) Training Program and directed that program until mid-2017. In my earlier working life, I was a university academic based first at La Trobe University and later at Monash University.
When I’m not busy with training activities or linguistic research, you might find me at the cinema, digging or daydreaming in my garden, or sculpting or printmaking in my garage studio space.
