Charmaine Bennell

Charmaine Bennell is a Noongar author and illustrator from Western Australia. Her published books are written in the Noongar language, the language of Indigenous Australians in the South West of Western Australia. She is the daughter of Glen and Phyllis Bennell (née Wallam) and was born in Pingelly. When she was a child her family moved to Bunbury.

Charmaine was a Noongar language teacher at Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School in Bunbury[1] and is now studying for a Bachelor of Arts of Indigenous Languages and Linguistics degree.[2] While working at Sister Kate's, Charmaine started the Languages Other than English program to teach Noongar. She is passionate about saving and teaching the Noongar language.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b Sharon Kennedy (9 July 2010). "Learning Noongar language". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Board of Directors". Noongar Boodjar Language Cultural Aboriginal Corporation. 2016. Archived from the original on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Western and Northern Aboriginal Language Alliance Conference - List of Authors". Batchelor Press. 2013. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.