Once again the confusion over language, religion and terrorism in Australia has led to some funny, if very sad and stupid, conflations. The latest concerns an Optus telephone store in a shopping ...

In one of those conversations, I learned about a language kerfuffle from a few years ago that took me back to the 1990s, and reminded me of how beautiful and complex nonstandard speech can be.

John France is the owner and founder of Langports English Language College in Australia and a veteran in running English language schools. He talks to The PIE about how and why he does what he does.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) chief scientist Bronwyn Fox has described that there is a language barrier between Australia's industry and the university ...