Introduction. Linking translating and interpreting practice to research, training and professionalisation

![CDATA[Over the past 30 years Australian innovations and publications in Translating and Interpreting have gained in stature and have in many ways become pathbreaking for different branches of the T&I profession around the world. Australia's expertise shows not so much in the well-established areas of technical translation and conference interpreting (which for many in the past, particularly in Europe, was virtually all there was to the T&I field), but in development of all forms of T&I outside the conference hall and technical translation: in community translation, in T&I pedagogy, in the development of language services, in national accreditation and standards, and in innovation in T&I practice. All of these are areas now being developed, to varying degrees, in many other countries as the realities of multilingual populations and new communication and justice demands become widespread.]]