It seems to me that languages education in Queensland, where so often school principals cannot find teachers for specific languages, might be well served if all primary school teachers' degrees included a unit on Esperanto. Even if optional, it would be valuable. I myself would far prefer the “natural languages” were amply supplied and guaranteed. It won't happen. Esperanto is at least a great introduction to real and transferrable language learning that any teacher can have in 100 hours (as opposed to 1400 hours for minimal Chinese, 800 for Indonesian, etc).

Phil Mahnken
Indonesian Language Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of the Sunshine Coast