  We present new observations, performed with the Australia Telescope Compact
Array, of the HI absorption in the central regions of Centaurus A. For the
first time, absorption is detected against the radio core at velocities
blueshifted with respect to the systemic velocity. Moreover, the data show that
the nuclear redshifted absorption component is broader than reported before.
With these new results, the kinematics of the HI in the inner regions of Cen A
appears very similar to that observed in emission for the molecular
circumnuclear disk. This suggests that the central HI absorption is not, as was
previously claimed, evidence of gas infall into the AGN, but instead is due to
a cold, circumnuclear disk.
