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Community Languages Multicultural Grants

To provide funding to support community languages schools to teach school-aged children to speak a foreign language, including by providing funding for the following:

(a) operating costs of the schools;

(b) the development and provision of curriculums, teaching materials and other educational supports to be used by the schools;

(c) the development and provision of teacher training activities.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to giving effect to Australia's obligations under either or both of the following:

(a) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Article 29;

(b) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 27.