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Harold, Kevin and Wayne role play a scenario using typical Moree Aboriginal English. List of Moree Aboriginal English: ngarriga… silly birray… boy shook (or to shake)… steal/ stole dimba… sheep gungis… police bugeri… telling lies womba…mad, …

This video explores Gomeroi language and culture focussing on recent changes to the Mehi River in Moree. These changes caused by overuse of water, clearing of land and waste pollution have had a devastating effect on the land and the lives of the people who rely on the river. …

Keeping Aboriginal knowledge and culture alive. Yitha Yitha Elder: Yitha Yitha Elder Will Hannah-Rodgers Camera: Sue Hudson This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to …

Beryl Carmichael is the last of her family to sing the Ngiyampaa birth song. The birth song has been handed down from her Grandmother to her Mother and now Beryl is the last of her family to sing the Ngiyampaa song. Produced by Mungo Youth Project 2014 This video was …

Sian Lee is the Indigenous Student Services Officer at LaTrobe University, Mildura campus. Sian Lee has memories of learning to speak Barkindji as a child. This is what first sparked her passion for language and lead her to a career in teaching and linguistics. This is …

Language workers from right across the top end and throughout WA got together this week for the bi-annual Wanala Language conference. ABC Open held a video workshop at the conference to demonstrate how easy it is to share language through video. This is the outcome of the …

During NAIDOC week this year, ABC Open Producer Jeff Licence spent a day in Ballina on the NSW North Coast connecting with indigenous language teacher Rick Cook, the Bundjalung language and the local community. Jeff held an ABC Open Mother Tongue stall, inviting anyone who …

Making this video was a journey about finding myself, reconnecting with my mob and reaching out to other Indigenous mob to inspire them to find their connection to family, country and culture. It's also about educating the broader community of non-Indigenous people, and the …

Rhonda Radley is a descendant of the Gathang and Dunghutti speaking people. She sees a need in her community to bring women from all the different Aboriginal groups together. She has found strength within herself to drive a movement that does just that, and to revive culture …

A Yorta Yorta elder films an ABC Open Video Postcard on a smartphone and blogs about her ancestral language. My grandmother was one of the last Yorta Yorta speakers. She taught Yorta Yorta language at Worowa College in Healesville, Victoria. At some stage I undertook the …

This is a story about a dynamic group of women who are reviving the GunaiKurnai language throughout East Gippsland in Victoria: Lynnette Solomon-Dent, Dr Doris Paton and Hollie Johnson. Dr Paton explains that not everything in her language can be directly translated into …

One day, right before her 14th birthday, Joy Wandin Murphy woke up with a bad feeling. She refused to go to school. She had an unshakeable sense of dread that something was going to happen to her father. Joy was eventually permitted to stay home, and her father passed away that …

Nhanda is a Midwest language spoken in the region from Geraldton to the Murchison River, yet very few people speak it fluently today. In an attempt to stimulate and invigorate the sleeping language, a number of resources have been recently produced, in the hope that more …

Sue Hanson is a linguist, and for the last four years she's been working with a small group of women from Leonora, two hours drive north of Kalgoorlie in the West Australian Goldfields. They are some of the last remaining speakers of Kuwarra, the language of the people from …

Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria. Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …

Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria. Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …

Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria. Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …

Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria. Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …

Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria. Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …