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A group of Noonkanbah girls go looking for bush tucker but one of them eats a poisoned fruit even though the others warn her. Soon, she turns into Animal Girl -- an al-foil crazed white haired girl with bulging eyes, razor sharp teeth and super-long fingernails! The others must hit her over the head and knock the spirit out of her!

Our first official music video, first of all we would like to thank Ardyaloon Community, Brenton Meynell and The Way Studios for recording the audio, Telly Pearson for playing the girl, Meranda Lands for filming her, Alieka Dixon for editing, Raymond Angus, PAKAM and the talented Rohanna Angus you mob are too deadly.

Buffel Grass is the worst weed to affect Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) communities, cultural sites and the wonderful biodiversity of the northern South Australian desert. Learn about the threat to conservation and culture the devastating spread of buffel is causing in this educational short film created in association with PIRSA, APY Lands - Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, Native Vegetation Council and Alinytjara Wilurara Natural Resources Management Board.

Created as part of Desert Pea Media's 'Crossroads Project' in Moree NSW (2023).

First Languages Australia short with Karina Lester speaking Yankunytjatjara.

This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board changes each week to advertise community events.

Traditional Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Dance, Song and story performance. Centenary of Canberra (C100) at the National Museum of Australia (NMA). Songlines of the Western Desert Project: Artistic directed Wesley Enoch, Anangu Inma director Inawinytji Williamson, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara dancers and singers, video production by Matt Davis Tilt Vision and Diana James ANU.

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Aunt Gloria Whalan began writing children's books to preserve her 'mother tongue' Wiradjuri language. Guulaangga, The Green Tree Frog, is a story that was inspired by Gloria's experiences growing up on a farm.

The lyrics for this revised anthem were written by Judith Durham, Kutcha Edwards, Lou Bennett, Camilla Chance and Bill Hauritz. In this video clip it is performed by Kutcha Edwards during the KAGE Team of Life theatre production. For more information about this revised anthem, see: www.dulwichcentre.com.au/anthem

CHESHIRE x KAKADU COLLECTIVE x DESERT PEA MEDIA - 'Mayali ft. Victor Rostron [CHESHIRE REMIX]

Ground-breaking Australian community media mob - DESERT PEA MEDIA is coming in HARD with their 20 Year Anniversary Project – ‘RE-IMAGINE NATION’. A ‘remix album’ of hip-hop/ soul/ reggae tunes written with young Indigenous people and communities around the country over two decades.

The lead single ‘Mayali’ drops on December 9 and features Arnhem Land knowledge holder and Kunè Songman – Victor Rostron, of WILDFIRE MANWURRK BAND - remixed by Australian Bass Producer CHESHIRE, an evocative and uplifting anthem - fusing funky brass and pulsing rhythms with the ancient sounds of Indigenous song-lines and cultural stories from young people from Jabiru NT.

The original song premiered on Triple J in April 2021, becoming an overnight online sensation, and bringing in 26k views on Youtube, and a bangin’ 304k on Facebook. ‘Mayali ft. Victor Rostron’ then went on to win the 2021 National Indigenous Music Award for ‘Community Music Clip of the Year’.

“This song could start a fire - so much movement, heat, and passion. Always love when you can HEAR how much fun was made during the making of tracks” – Ash McGregor, Triple J

“This is taking me to a sunset in the top end and I don't wanna leave!” - Declan Byrne, Triple

And this is only the tip of the iceberg. ‘RE-IMAGINE NATION’, with funding support from Create NSW - brings together some huge Australian artists such as NERVE, PLUTONIC LAB, JIMBLAH, TRUE VIBENATION, CHESHIRE, BUMBLE, JUMAN, HAZY and more – remixing tunes from B-TOWN WARRIORS, KDA CREW, THE MOB and many more.

Get ready for more summer anthems in 2022 and 2023 than you can poke a magpie goose at.

"Desert Pea Media’s work has been an inspiration for decades. Their ability to bring out the voices of young Indigenous people in an authentic, positive way is incredible.” - CHESHIRE

An Australia Day display by the super powered agents of the Australian Federal Extra-Normal Operatives is interrupted by a super-terrorist by the name of Samson.

ZERO-POINT: SEASON ZERO introduces to the world the first Indigenous hero; packed full of suped up terrorists, over-regulated superheroes, addictive “super-drugs”, Government lies and action-packed fight scenes. Filled with political subtext mirroring many contemporary social issues including the on-going fight for sovereignty of our First Nations people and the fallout of the top secret Maralinga Nuclear tests.

Based on the original comic book by writer/director Jonathon Saunders, ZERO-POINT features an all-star cast with award-winning actor MARK COLE-SMITH (The Drover’s Wife, Last Cab to Darwin, Picnic at Hanging Rock); as ZERO-POINT; STEPHEN OLIVER (Black Comedy) as the post-human terrorist SAMSON; and EBONY MCGUIRE (Yirra-Yaakin & Ilbijerri Theatre Company) as WING COMMANDER.

Desert Pea Media is very proud to present a new collaboration with the Indigenous community of Coffs Harbour NSW. Situated on the mid North Coast, on Gumbaynggirr Country.

This production was created in November of 2021 - an outcome of a unique, collaborative creative process between Desert Pea Media, local Elders (Jagun Elder's Group), community members, young people and funded by ETC (a community orientated, not-for-profit provider of employment, and training services).

The overall purpose of the broader project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about well-being for Original Nations communities. Focusing on cultural identity, education and knowledge transfer and positive choices.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities.

Special thanks to Ceharnie Martin, Aunty Jennie Rosser, Julie Powick and Corrinna Dahlstrom from ETC for all of your hard work and support to make this project possible.

Special thanks to all the TO's of Coffs Harbour - The Gumbaynggirr People, and all of the mob in the region that participated, welcomed us and shared their time, their stories and their country for the creation of this production. We are humbled and grateful for your trust and friendship.

CREDITS

Toby Finlayson - Project Director/Film Director/Facilitator/Co-Writer/Co-Producer
Roy Weiland - Film Co-Director/Co-Facilitator/Co-Writer/DOP/Editor/Graphics
Josh Nicholas - Music Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Scott Large - General Manager/Co-Producer/Co-Facilitator/Photographer/Graphic Design
Sari Mann-Wills - Trainee/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Troy Robinson - Cultural Advisor/Co-Writer/Performer/Mentor
Ceharnie Martin - Co-Producer/Community Project Coordinator
Coby Cochrane - Camera 2

STARRING

TROY ROBINSON, UNCLE TONY PERKINS

Desert Pea Media are very proud to announce the release of a collaborative music/ film production with Wiradjuri young people and community members from Trangie and Narromine in Western NSW.

This production was created in June 2023 - an outcome of a unique, collaborative creative process between Desert Pea Media artists, local Wiradjuri Elders, community members, knowledge holders, staff from local community services and an incredibly talented group of young people.

The project came about through a partnership between Desert Pea Media and Narromine Community Skills Project Inc - supported by Trangie Central School and Trangie LALC. Funded by NSW Government - Department of Regional Youth.

This compelling project, crafted by the Wungunja Warriors and DPM Creative Team, marks a significant achievement in storytelling, cultural preservation, and artistic expression for the Wiradjuri community in Trangie, NSW.

The project encapsulates the voices, stories, and visions of the Wiradjuri young people, as they navigate the intricate tapestry of their heritage and contemporary existence. Guided by the artistic vision of Desert Pea Media, the Wungunja Warriors have seamlessly woven together narratives, visuals, and sounds that speak to the heart of Wiradjuri culture, and celebrate the strength, resilience, and cultural pride of Wiradjuri Young People.

Special thanks to the Wiradjuri mob of Western NSW for having us on country.

CREDITS

Roy Weiland - Film Director/Lead Facilitator/Co-Writer/Co-Producer/DOP/Editor/Graphics
Josh Nicholas - Project Lead/Music Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Scott Large - General Manager/Co-Producer/Photographer/Graphic Design
Juman Al-Ramahi - Co-Facilitator/Co-Writer/Singer/Songwriter
Ross Turley - DOP/Co-Facilitator
Nathaniel Sherwood - Audio Mixing/Mastering

Lyrics

Yaama, we in Trangie yo
Here to break the stereo types
it ain't no black and white
Elders had to fight for our rights

Now I hold my people and my culture tight
Taking all these opportunities my futures bright
Listening to yarns by the fire light,
`Where!` by the fire light

Hey bra, doin sis, goin to the waterhole
One big mob from the young and the old
We sing songs of the Wai wan, Wondibong
In the Nation of Wiradgjuri (Straight in to next para)

We got so much soul
Lets go, thats how we roll
black and white feet we stroll
Time for us to take control – Time for us to take control.

Yeah standing on the shoulder of our ancestors
They gave us so much opportunity and honour
Will you listen so that we can share our knowledge
Lets open hearts and we can all embrace each other

We got our totems
Waagen, Googa, Garru, Budhara, Wangga Wanngga
(Cow goanna magpie possum pugeon)
We got our knowledge
Yindyamarra, Yalbilinya, wudhagarbinya, gandaywarra (Respect, Learn, Listen, grow)
This is our country
Wambuul, billabong, Gin Gin, Dandaloo
(river, waterhole)
Ngurambang, Respect and connection
(Country)
We the Trangie mob our elders reflection

V2
Ive got three lines of ochre on my skin
Distance, boundaries, respect from within
We be doin fire dance
Dillybag, Maliyan, Wagandaa and Dinniwaan

No dog tags no more – wirray
No shame no more - wirray
We're hearing our call - wirray
Respecting our lore - wirray

(same as first flow)
Together as one, this is how we move
Never walking back like the emu or Ru
Wunganja, this is how we do
Who are you – Yeah we welcome you too!

Kicking back being black, super rare artefact
banging like clap stick, we light it black magic
Biame the spirit it guides us- we live it – connected- we did it – connected we living

Outro
Mandaag
Guwu

High Cliffy Island off the Kimberley coast was once home to the Yawijibaya people. Who lived here for about 7 thousand years. But soon after a French film crew visited in 1929 the Yawijibaya people vanished sparking one of the North West’s greatest mysteries.

Jalajirrpa Band performing with Opera Australia

A music video for the song "Lil Lady," by Trevor Ishiguchi

Traditional Dance Performances held in Broome as part of Stompem Ground 1998.
Yawuru, Karajarri, Torres Strait Islander, Bardi, Kija, Mirriwoong and other dance groups.
Digitised from SP Betacam tape and remastered in 2020.

A Kuarna Language short-short course from Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

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Werte! Unte mwerre? Hello, how are you? This song teaches us how to greet each other in Central/Eastern Arrernte. Based on an old Arrernte nursery rhyme Werte! is a brand new tune with rocking desert guitar and kids call-and-response.

How do you greet each other in the First Languages where you live?

'Werte!', is the opening track of Ampe-Kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground) Band’s new album, Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kid’s Sing) that teaches and celebrates Arrernte language and culture through music. 

At Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground Central Australia), we as First Nations people are creating resources for children in our own language. We have been writing children’s books and songs that speak about our culture, country, families and language. We want our kids to grow up with music and educational resources that reflect their culture – that can help them to learn, respect, speak, read, write, and sing in their First Language. 

We started this to keep our language strong, and it's grown into something everybody can enjoy and learn from. Join us to learn our language through our music.

Kele! 

Language: Eastern/Central Arrernte

Song Lyrics written by Amanda Turner, Carol Turner
 
Music Written by: William “Nookie” Lowah, Myles Turner, Harry James Angus

Lyric Video created by: Mitchell Doolan and Damon Van Der Schuit

Supported by the Australian Government Indigenous Languages and the Arts Program
 
About Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground Central Australia): 

Children’s Ground is a First Nations organisation creating a different future for the next generation of First Nations children. We believe every child born today should experience a lifetime of opportunity and grow up strong in their identity and culture, free from injustice and economic poverty. 

www.childrensground.org.au

Recording of May Howard's 104th Birthday

Tiyana teaches us how to say thank you in Kaurna!

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They are accompanied by drumming and singing.

STOMPEM GROUND 2022 - King of Hearts

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

The mountain Balgan, otherwise known as Pigeon House Mountain, is a sacred place from which many stories come from. This dreamtime story is from the Budawang people, one of the thirteen kinship groups in the Yuin area that speak the Dhurga language.

In 2013 CAN WA set out to encourage a group of Noongar students in Narrogin to learn their traditional language.
Aboriginal artists and mentors were engaged to deliver a program where popular culture, such as music and media was used to inspire these teenagers to learn to speak and write Noongar.
Noongar Pop Culture presented by Act-Belong-Commit, is a CAN WA project in association with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company and part of CAN WA’s Strong Culture, Strong Community program.

Hilda Nambula from Wilora makes music sticks/clapsticks and talks about the tools she uses.

This video was made as part of Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi's Culture Program.

Visit waltja.org.au to learn more

You can buy slapsticks like the ones in the video from Waltja's Arts Social Enterprise www.waltja.org.au/shop

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Beagle Bay band Billard Boys performs live at Saltwater Festival 2018 in Broome.

Reading the Country is a series created by Warlpiri knowledge holders from the Northern and Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Ares with the Central Land Council.

Tjulpu and Walpa is the story of two young Anangu girls - one who has a difficult path growing up, while the other has a happy upbringing. Originally developed in the format of a book, the story of Tjulpu and Walpa has now been adapted to an animated film.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Gomeroi man Gavi Duncan explains the significance of Bulgandry, a sacred Indigenous art site. Situated in the Brisbane Water National Park, Bulgandry is home to rock carvings depicting the story of Baiyami, the creator.

The 'This Place' project invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it.

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past - Fitzroy Xpress - Julia

Music video of "Saltwater Cowboy' by the Pigram Brothers. (Taken from longer file: PK0A113)

A reverse role play performed at the Language and the Law Conference. Supreme Court of the Northern Territory - Darwin Part 1

First poem of six in the Writings From The Dark series.

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

High Tide Music Video shot in Wathunga

ICTV Community News is a news and current affairs program, delivered in Indigenous languages. It provides ICTV audiences access to national, regional and local information in language.

This project is being developed in partnership with The Koori Mail and ABC.

This project was supported by the Australian government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts program.

For more information please contact ICTV at news@ictv.com.au or on (08) 8952 3118.

Bush Bands Bash 2023 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

Ngaanyatjarra Lands School 34th Annual Desert Dust Up 2024
Wanarn
Warakurna
Kiwirrkurra
Tjukurla
Wingellina
Blackstone
Jameson
Warburton

NO SHAME | BE PROUD | RESPECT

This is a 12 minute film directed by Indigenous women about fertility, pregnancy and family for young Indigenous women who have rheumatic heart disease (RHD). This is culturally appropriate health information for a target audience of girls and young women from ages 13 to 20s who have mild to moderate RHD. It does not cover severe RHD and valve repair or replacements. Friends and families of young women may also like to view this film to better understand how to support young women have a healthy pregnancy.

Half hour documentary-
Alice Springs hip-hop duo, KnD, have been writing and performing since 2008. Karnage (Tristrum Watkins) is a Western Aranda man from Hermannsburg (130km west of Alice Springs). Darknis (Corinna Hall) is an Ngarrindjera/Kokatha woman from Raukkan and Ceduna, South Australia.
Tristram is a pioneer of hip-hop in Alice Springs , having performed since high school. He has been a catalyst in the resurgence of hip-hop throughout Central Australia and Alice Springs now hosts regular visiting international hip-hop acts. He left to study music at CASM (The Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music) in Adelaide, where he met Corinna, one of the first female hip-hop artists in South Australia.
KnD write all their songs collaboratively, sampling beats and adding lyrics to the melodies they create. The lyrics of their songs often involve Aboriginal land rights, social issues and the everyday struggles of Indigenous people. Their first hit ‘Only Tha Strong Survive’ is the title track from their debut album released in 2010. Since then they have performed at events such as the Dreaming Festival in Qld, Spirit Festival in Adelaide, Inala Festival in Brisbane and Wide Open Space Festival in Central Australia. They have supported such artists as Paul Kelly, Coloured Stone, No Fixed Address, Archie Roach, Jessica Mauboy, as well as hip-hop legends like Naughty by Nature, Bone Thugs, Ja Rule, Scribe, Savage, K-rino and the Outlaws.

Beautiful Yuendumu: Collaborative Murals Illuminate Community Spirit (Warlpiri)

A traditional dance festival held in Ernabella, filmed in 1987, back in the early days of PY Media. This one-hour video was condensed from 15 hours of footage, and only contains excerpts of each inma.

A silent short film about SUGAR!

Young people in Warruwi find strange messages around the community. Their mission is to find out the meaning of the messages and keep their culture strong.

A free concert held on the banks of the Todd River at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station to launch Jacinta Price's debut album Dry River.

Margaret MK Kemarre Turner tell the Story of the Milky Way in Arrernte as a children's story with leaf puppets.

A Song for the Mardoowarra is a puppet show about the Fitzroy River, performed in Pandanus Park.

This video was created as part of the Red Sand Culture Music Program. Young participants create and recorde their own songs, along with exploring other multimedia creative outlives, like making music video clips.


Red Sand Culture is a Hip Hop Music and Dance mentoring project delivered by Incite Arts, in partnership with the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation (WYDAC- Mt Theo Program).

Visit the Red Sand Culture website for more information -- www.redsandculture.com

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Desert Pea Media is proud to present a new collaboration with the Dunghutti Community in Kempsey NSW.

This production was created in November 2022 - an outcome of a unique, collaborative creative process between Desert Pea Media artists, staff at Melville High School, local Dunghutti Elders, community members, cultural leaders and an incredibly talented group of Melville High School Students.

The overall purpose of the project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about social and emotional well-being for Original Nations young people. Focusing on knowledge, education, cultural identity, wellbeing and connection to country.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities.

The project was funded and co-produced by Melville High School.

The DPM team feel deeply honoured and grateful to learn, share and create with the Kempsey Community. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved.

Special thanks to Andrew Ryder, Uncle Bob Smith and Aunty Jackie Welsh from Melville High School for all of your hard work, trust and support to make this project possible.

Special thanks to all the Dunghutti People, and all of the mob in the region that participated, welcomed us and shared their time, their stories and their country for the creation of this production. We are humbled and grateful for your trust and friendship.

CREDITS

Toby Finlayson - Project Director/Film Director/Facilitator/Co-Writer/Co-Producer
Roy Weiland - Film Co-Director/Co-Facilitator/Co-Writer/DOP/Editor/Graphics
Josh Nicholas - Music Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Scott Large - General Manager/Co-Producer/Photographer/Graphic Design
Sari Mann-Wills - Trainee/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Nathaniel Sherwood - Audio Mixing/Mastering.

STARRING

Latarnie Kennedy
Shaylah Thompson
Yatalie Donovan-Dickson
Janaali Ward
Margaret Bull
Teneisha Triplett
Skye Dickson
Jakaya Holten
Ashanti Dickson-Holten
Shamike Louden
Safiyah Clancy
Mis Thompson
Amalie Iliffe
Maddison Shanney
Shanoma Campbell-Cook
Zailen Campbell-Cook
Jardie Morris

LYRICS

Our rivers (Bita) – Our plains (Warrawa) – From the mountains (Bandungakayi) – To the sea (Mulumangu)
It’s my dreaming (gurrigan) – My people – This country – Is me

Dhitiyn barri Dunghutti (Thungutti)
From the mountain range to the sand
For generations, we built foundations and roamed this land
Ochre on my face, connected to this place since time began
Sugarloaf… down to the sea – my people meet for song and dance

What are we? Too black for yah? Can’t handle a yarn ‘bout massacre.
Thousands of people murdered, my trauma, I’ll give it all back to ya.
They tried to – get rid of us. Unspoken genocide.
They tried to wipe us out but *surprise*, us mob survived

Old Burnt Bridge, let me take ya back – 1863, living in a tin shack
Flour, sugar, tea never gave us jack. But we have a culture and you can’t take that.
Mish man pulling up, 3 cars in black,
running next door so we don’t get snatched.
knock knock knock Shhh it’s the welfare pack –
they take our kids and they don’t come back.

What’s that Mr. Prime minister? Won’t answer the boys from Kinchela.
Uncle told us he asked ya “Why?”. But ya didn’t say nothing, did ya brah?
Let’s talk about Cootamundra. And the girls 16 & under.
Kids taken into slavery, names became a number.

CHORUS:

I have a feeling that
My Dreaming’s coming back
Because my history’s Black
We put Dunghutti on the map

I get a feeling like
My dreaming’s still alive
We still fight, we still grow
We still learning, so we know
there’s still hope

From Southside, Green Hill to Burnt Bridge
Still on the Mission Still on the track
Still got the vision Still got the facts
And ya still can’t handle that

We survived – we still alive
And We still deadly proud and black
We still listening, we still learning
And we still Bringing our culture back

Our knowledge is our power and that power makes them scared
They tried to silence us voice became weapons instead
More black teachers, black leaders, black thinkers, black dreamers, believers (Brrrrt)
Black seekers, fact speakers, and more black cultural keepers

Ian Waina catches a turtle smashes its shell and pulls its guts out while its still alive, Turlte then swims off he catches it and chucks it on the fire. Still alive. Its dead by the time he eats it.

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past - Bran Nue Dae Original Cast singing Listen to the News

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

'Galuku' (coconut) song written and performed by Nathan Garawirrtja. Singer/songwriter from East Arnhem land, Northern Territory, Australia.
This is also a Batchelor Institute Screen and Media Production. Screen and Media Students from BIITE were involved in this Production.

How dangerous is Alice Springs really? (English)

King of the Kimberley:
Kings vs Spurs, Halls Creek Basketball 2015

This video shows Violet Wadrill Nanaku making mangarri (damper).

It was produced by Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland).

For more information, contact Felicity Meakins (f.meakins@uq.edu.au) or Karungkarni Art (karungkarniart@gmail.com).

Bush Bands Bash 2018:

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

How dangerous is Alice Springs really? (Western Arrarnta)

Episode 1 of NEOMAD where the kids of Roebourne community star as the 'Love Punks' in a fantasy world set after a nuclear apocolypse. The fate of humanity rests in the hands of these ten young warriors. Oh no.

A Traditional elder gives a tour on the Chuulangun Homelands (Cape York) looking for native plants, speaking in both English and language, he talks about Wyku (Belly ache tree).

Wangga Dancers: Jalalay Festival 2017. Culture is the compass. 19th 21 Septemberr 2017

This is the first part to a comprehensive account of the experiences of a community of Aboriginal People from pre-colonial times to the 1990s.

This is the second part to a comprehensive account of the experiences of a community of Aboriginal People from pre-colonial times to the 1990s.

Video of the song Garu by Barra West Wind lead singer Larry Gurruwiwi. Filmed in Brirritjimi, Gove, North East Arnhem Land 2017

First Languages Australia short with Jacqueline Spurling speaking about the Wangkatja language.

First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

The Warlpiri people have been in the central Australian desert for roughly 22,000 years and still retain much of their culture and practices. Mamu Kurtaji is a contemporary adaptation of a traditional Warlpiri monster story. The Kurtaji man punishes those who break cultural law. He can sing himself invisible and walks on emu feathers so he cannot be heard and leaves no tracks. It is said that if you see the Kurtaji, it is too late.

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

BBB23 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

Groovylips perform Motherless Child, a traditional Negro Spiritual song, at the Battle of the Bands in Broome.

Music video for the song "Galiwin'ku" by young band Wildflower.

'Feel the Fire' is the third Music Video in the 'Identity Matters' series produced with Indigenous students from Catholic Education across Queensland. The song was written in collaboration with students from Emmaus College and The Cathedral College in Rockhampton.The students expressed their desire for me and other non-indigenous people to share in their history, embrace their culture and feel what they feel....and I certainly felt it. I was deeply moved by the pride and connection that the students felt for their culture. Its a privalige to have worked with all the amazing young indigenous people in Toowoomba, Cairns, Rockhampton, Ipswich and Brisbane. Thanks for sharing your lives, opening your hearts and most importantly making me feel a part of the mob!!

More videos from Small Town Culture here: www.youtube.com/user/SmallTownCulture/videos

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

STOMPEM GROUND 2022 - King of Hearts

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Live music Billard Boys band singing.

Red Dust Role Models visited Groote Eylandt

The Pigram Brothers are a seven-piece Indigenous Australian band from the pearling town of Broome, Western Australia, formed in 1996.

They were heavily involved in Broome's musical and theatrical exports – forming the original backing band for Jimmy Chi's 1990 musical Bran Nue Dae, which received international acclaim.

The UPK#4 is a project developed by Nganampa Health in South Australia. This project was designed as a strategy for well being'. Nganingu Mark Burton and his song 'Irititja' meaning from Long Ago is about his homeland and Grandfather. Stewart Gaykamangu writter and singer of Pitulu Wanti (Petrol, Leave it Alone) sings about his heartache for a friend affected by petrol sniffing

The Saltwater Band Live In Concert

Dhinawan' is the Kamileroi word for 'emu', and the song title refers to an ancient Kamileroi constellation etched into the negative space of the milky way. A powerful and sacred Indigenous songline, the Dhinawan story shifts and changes as it travels from nation to nation, and is the foundation of this particular production.

Written, recorded and filmed over 5 days in June 2016 in the remote community of Walgett in Northwest NSW, 'Dhinawan Touch the Stars' is an outcome of a Desert Pea Media community project with a group of young Indigenous people enrolled at Walgett Community College.

The project came about through a partnership between Desert Pea Media, Outback Arts and the James N Kirby Foundation.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encouraged participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for individuals, for each other and for our communities.

May Minyingali Butcher talks about her family in relation to the Stolen Generation and how it affected them.

Short campfire horror drama about the Cake Monster.

Filmed as part of the Mimosa Studio Project in Woorabinda for Tropfest Junior 2013.
Written by Terry Sullivan and Jobe Adams
Filmed by Amber Adams
Directed by Jobe Adams

Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu.

This series consists of four short films in which Warlpiri women sing, dance and tell the stories of different ancestral beings who travel across Warlpiri country. Each part contains footage of these women singing, painting their bodies with red and white ochre and performing the accompanying dances. The first part presents the Minamina yawulyu and tells of group of ancestral women as they emerge from Minamina, in the far west of Warlpiri country and begin their journey eastwards. Part 2 presents the songs and stories of the Watiyawarnu ancestors from Ngurlulirri-nyinanya, to the north-west of Yuendumu, telling of their travels as they search for varieties of acacia seed, grinding them and making seed cakes along the way. Part 3 presents the famous songs and story of the two Jangalas from Warlukurlangu whose evil blue-tongue lizard father lights a raging bush fire, forcing them to run away southwards out of their country before they return home, weak and exhausted. And finally, part 4 presents the songs and stories of the Ngapa ‘Rain’ Dreaming that travels westwards across the country to the north of Yuendumu. Warlpiri women from Yuendumu have presented these yawulyu so that the songs and their associated knowledge can be remembered and performed by future generations of Warlpiri women. These films appear on a DVD which comes as an accompanying insert in the book ‘Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women’s songs from Yuendumu’ (Batchelor Institute Press, 2017).

Hard Rock live band "Silhouettes" put on a great show!

'Amazing Grace' is taken from Gurrumul's latest release 'The Gospel Album' out now.

'Yolngu' is the first single from my second EP.

It is a special song to me as it involves samples I recorded in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia. I have been lucky enough to visit and grow up closely with an Aboriginal family since I was about 4. My dad wanted my brother and I to experience what traditional aboriginal culture was like, so we visited a family every few years. They have also visited us and spoke to my classmates when I was at school about Aboriginal culture. We were also lucky enough to be adopted into the family as the elder had sung for 'two white babies to come play with her children.'

On my last trip, I asked whether we could collaborate and record some singing and traditional music. They were excited to combine our two backgrounds of music and that's where these recordings came from

The music video is all footage I have filmed during my visits, It shows the family that we have spent many years with. I want to put this video out, highlighting and celebrating their amazingly rich culture.

'I am a real Aboriginal Australian, and that is my life - and you - you too, be an Australian'

Available now on iTunes & Spotify through Inertia Access: lnk.to/DH_Ylg

Socials:
https://soundcloud.com/dailyholla
https://www.facebook.com/dailyholla
https://twitter.com/HollaDaily

Publicity:
http://www.mammalsounds.com


This video and song exists purely to celebrate Indigenous Australian culture. This video may contain images that upset Aboriginal viewers.

Please contact: dailyholla.music@gmail.com

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past -
Kevin Gunn - Walja Jidan Jidan.mov

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Freedom is the new single from Mau Power's new album. It features the legendary Archie Roach, & is available through all good digital outlets. https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-show-will-go-on/id895764681

In 2012-2013 a group of Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaanyatjarra language speakers from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia recorded traditional verbal arts and sand stories.

Even in Australian Indigenous communities where traditional spoken languages are still relatively strong, these special forms of communication are highly endangered.

This is one of four films from the Western Desert Verbal Arts Project funded by:
ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme) Small Grant SG0187.
Australian Research Council – DE120100720
Australian Research Council – DP110102767


The films were produced by team members Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral (ANU) and Jennifer Green (University of Melbourne).

Munumburra 1998:Kimberley Gold - Bring Me Down

Desert Pea Media is proud to present a new collaboration with the Dunghutti Community in Kempsey NSW.

This production was created in November 2022 - an outcome of a unique, collaborative creative process between Desert Pea Media artists, staff at Melville High School, local Dunghutti Elder - Uncle Bob Smith, community members, cultural leaders and an incredibly talented group of Melville High School Students.

The overall purpose of the project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about social and emotional well-being for Original Nations young people. Focusing on knowledge, education, cultural identity, wellbeing and connection to country.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities.

The project was funded and co-produced by Melville High School.

The DPM team feel deeply honoured and grateful to learn, share and create with the Kempsey Community. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved.

Special thanks to Sandy Jackson, Andrew Ryder, Uncle Bob Smith and Aunty Jackie Welsh from Melville High School for all of your hard work, trust and support to make this project possible.

Special thanks to all the Dunghutti People, and all of the mob in the region that participated, welcomed us and shared their time, their stories and their country for the creation of this production. We are humbled and grateful for your trust and friendship.

CREDITS

Toby Finlayson - Project Director/Film Director/Facilitator/Co-Writer/Co-Producer
Roy Weiland - Film Co-Director/Co-Facilitator/Co-Writer/DOP/Editor/Graphics
Josh Nicholas - Music Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator/ Audio Mixing
Scott Large - General Manager/Co-Producer/Photographer/Graphic Design
Sari Mann-Wills - Trainee/Co-Facilitator

STARRING

Uncle Bob Smith
Students from Melville High School

A Mythical Broome Story about a hairy man who frightened Bamba when he was a child.

In a remote part of Australia live some rare and threatened animals. One such animal is the shy bilby. Once common across Australian deserts, the bilby is now endangered. It’s last stronghold in the wild is in Martu country. Martu people are the traditional owners for this bilby country.
Martu rangers working with Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa look after country using Martu ways and whitefella ways. They protect endangered animals like the bilby. Introduced animals like feral cats, foxes and rabbits threaten the bilbies.
Large hot wildfires also destroy their food and cover from predators. Martu rangers put a remote sensor camera outside of a bilby burrow to capture some of the life of a bilby.

The official music video for ‘Meditjin’ features Baker Boy rapping in his native language of Yolngu Matha as well as English, alongside six barefoot Dancehall Dancers and two members of the Baker Boy family.

An evening “Wungubal”, just for fun, in Numbulwar. A father dances with his small son. The singing, accompanied by clapsticks and didjeridu, is typical of eastern Arnhem Land.

2024 CAFL Senior Men Community Grand Final - Ntaria v Papunya.

First Languages Australia short with Mandy Nicholson speaking Woiwurrung.

This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

Consumer educational video about Mechanic rip offs.

Trevor Adamson Live Country Session in the APY Lands
APY Lands country legend Trevor Adamson live in the PY Media Studio today.
More songs coming soon. Please share and support local Anangu artist.
Palyao.

Bush Bands Bash 2021: Eastern Arrernte Band Full Set

Introduction to Big Sing in the Desert - a choral camp held in the East MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory.

Singers come from remote communities of the central desert and join with singers and from all states and territories of Australia for 4 days of sharing songs, culture, language and stories, making and renewing friendships and our connections through song.

The story continues in 2017.
http://www.rachelhore.com/bigsing/

First Languages Australia short with Annalee Pope talking in Waka Waka language.

In this series Jack Buckskin outlines some basic words and phrases of the Kaurna language. The Kaurna are the original inhabitants of the Adelaide plains area in South Australia.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past - Fitzroy Xpress - Sun Shining Day

The Barkly Boys performing at the Bush Bands Bash 2014.

This performance was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Snow Kenna Park in Alice Springs.

Taylor (Tipu) Power teaches us the Kaurna names of some Australian native animals.This video was created by Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp

First Languages Australia short with Jack Johncock speaking about the Wirangu Kokatha language.

First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

First Languages Australia short with Helena Wright speaking about the Kabi Kabi language.

First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

CAFL 2019: Community Cup Round 11


Produced by Indigenous Community Television Limited (ICTV)

© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2019


Commentary Stan Coombe & Shaun Cusack

Producer Rita Cattoni
Line Producer Andre Sawenko
Production Manager Joshua Davis

Camera: John Hodgson, Nick Bitar, Christopher Fitzpatrick
Audio Jamie Balfour & Donovan Rice
Technical Director Ben Pridmore & Ben McIntyre
Production Support Robyn Nardoo
Graphics Effy Marie Smith, Graham Wilfred Junior
Music Thomas Big Bear Saylor
Runner Natalie Wilson

Proudly Supported by
Power and Water Corporation
Batchelor Institute
Indigenous Eye Health Unit
TIO
Mercure Alice Springs

Thank you to the Alice Springs Town Council

Produced by Indigenous Community Television Limited (ICTV)

© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2019

The first single from my new album Blue Lotus The Awakening and featuring the voice talent of Marcus Corowa, Arrived tells the story of when you have arrived at an important, singular moment in your destiny. The lyrics describes the visions and dreams that were the continuous drive and passion of this journey that has taken many years of dedication to bring to life.

Mau Power is a lyrical storyteller from Thursday Island in the Torres Straits of Australia,
his artistry is guided by two cultures indigenous and Hip-Hop.
He is revered by the Australian government for championing the Indigenous Aborigine
culture in modern day times.
The Torres Strait Islands is made up of 274 small islands that lie in the beautiful turquoise
waterways that separate The Cape York Peninsula in the northern tip of Australia from
Papua New Guinea. Thursday Island is approximately 4.5 square kilometers of lush
tropical terrain that is still governed by Indigenous knowledge. It is a place where
song and dance play an integral role in the survival of cultural traditions.
For many years, the Indigenous society have been recording their culture through
music and upon the advent of Hip Hop in the region, Mau Power cultivated a subgenre that
will record and tell the story of the Indigenous people. It is the art of storytelling that embodies
the connection of two cultures that makes Mau Power a truly unique Australian artist.
Patrick Mau is the founding Director of One Blood Hidden Image Entertainment
Group, which is the first Torres Strait full-service audio and film production company.

Barn Hill Music Festival 2019

The Nowhere Girls are faced with the hardest challenge yet. To save their island from sinking. The powerful flying crystals might hold the answer.

The opening of a new clinic at Galiwin'ku was a reason to celebrate for the local community. This new state of the art facility was opened on 25 May 2017 by Lawrence Costa MLA with local traditional owners. The clinic was build by Delta Reef, with ALPA business Bukmak constructions supplying concrete with our local yolngu workforce.

Barra West Wind - Wurrumba- great white shark of Galpu Clan from north east arnhemland.

Looks at the renovations in Wadeye.

BushTV Enterprises is an award winning Aboriginal media company owned by Ernie Dingo and Tom Hearn. BushTV is registered with Supply Nation and has offices in Darwin and Rockhampton. BushTV won the Queensland Government’s Reconciliation Award for its media work training and employing over 100 remote Indigenous people instrategic community based story production. Ernie Dingo’s commitment to the media industry and mentoring young Aboriginal people combined with Tom Hearn’s film making and business skills lies at the heart of BushTV’s success. More info at: www.bushtv.com.au

Aunty Val Mulcahy shares one of her favourite Dreamtime stories about the epic battle of the serpent and the tiger cat - Gurangatch and Mirragang

First Languages Australia short with Kerry Charlton speaking about the Yuggera - Djendewal llanguage.

First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

PY Media Live
Tune into PY Media to watch the APY women's Softball Grand final.
Amata Bombers VS Fregon Bulldogs live from Pukatja.

STOMPEM GROUND 1998 - Pigram Brothers: Howling at the Moon

Look after yourself and wellbeing

Four unlikely friends have an adventure in Woorabinda!

Made with iMovie app.

Mimosa Studio Project

Woorabinda January 2017

First Languages Australia short with Jeff Chesters speaking about the Jarowair language.

First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

Alec Baker, Peter Mungkuri and Mr Kunmanara Pompey are three senior artists and respected leaders from Indulkana community on the APY Lands, SA. As young men, they were renowned stockmen and in 2017 they coordinated a men’s camp at the local cattle station. Influenced by their ongoing love for cowboy and western films and country music, they created their own spaghetti western: Never Stop Riding.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

'We've been told by people what's going to happen if this goes ahead and it's frightning. It's going to damage the land and our health'.
Media is such a vital implement, giving a voice to remote communities dealing with often impossible challenges. Aunty Linda speaks impassionately about watching the Coal Mine effects over the last 70 years whilst seeing the proposed Underground Coal Seam Gas from Leigh Creek Energy.
'I just want to see it stop forever and the land to be left alone, let it heal now'.

A Community Production \ Produced by Lavene McKenzie and Dave Laslett with generous assistance from Denis Smith.

Minyma Kutjarra - Walungurru (Kintore) Young Women & Young Men's Program..

Produced by Red Dust Role Models.

‘We Can Be Buffel Free’ looks at the devastating effects buffel grass has on native flora and fauna and the things community members can do to help become buffel free!

This video was made for the ‘10 Deserts Project’ and presented by Arid Lands Environment Centre as part of the Buffel Free Great Victoria Desert Project.

Video Credits:
Design & Animation – Tim Adlide
Sound Engineer – Pin Rada
Narrator – Alison Hunt

Meet Dylan Charles - Kaiela Artist
Established in 2006, Kaiela Arts is an Aboriginal art centre located in Shepparton. We provide an important space for artists and the community to connect with art and culture. Our work drives important outcomes for both our artists and the broader Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community.
With a rich Indigenous heritage, the Kaiela Dungala (Goulburn Murray) region is home to many talented artists – Kaiela Arts represents more than 80 of those artists and helps to share and support their work. Artists receive training and mentoring at the centre, and the work of many artists has been exhibited around the State, in some cases winning prestigious awards.
We offer an accessible studio and social space for local artists to connect, create and share art. The centre is a welcoming environment for everyone to learn about Aboriginal cultural arts.
We provide training and professional development opportunities for member artists at all levels, including exhibitions and collaborations with artists and non arts organisations outside the gallery.

We are active in promoting the South Eastern Australian Aboriginal linear art styles, which is traditional to the Aboriginal peoples of the Kaiela-Dungala region.
We provide employment and training for Aboriginal people both as staff and artists. There are many opportunities to connect with the wider community through events, exhibitions, projects and workshops.
Our Gallery and shop is a point of sale for the work of our artists, providing them with a channel to market their work, connect with their buyers and earn income. The gallery and shop provides locals and visitors with a place to acquire local Aboriginal art.
We educate the community about Aboriginal art and culture, through our in schools program – Galyan Manu, for students and teachers. We also offer workshops and cultural arts information sessions to the general public.
All artwork is produced locally by members of the Dungala Kaiela Aboriginal community and includes paintings, didgeridoos, woven baskets, woodwork, ceramics, clap sticks, boomerangs, jewellery,carved emu eggs and poker work and well as books, cards and textiles..

Our Vision
Kaiela Arts strives to facilitate opportunities for Aboriginal people in the
Kaiela-Dungala (Goulburn-Murray) Region to connect to culture through the arts; empowering future generations.

Our Mission:
Kaiela Arts enable Aboriginal artists in the Kaiela-Dungala (Goulburn-Murray) Region
To tell their stories through art and build pathways to professional excellence and recognition, connecting with and sharing culture across two worlds and further enabling the physical, spiritual and emotional wellbeing of the whole community.

Red Dust headed back to Walungurru school in October to work with the community to write, record and produce a music video.

All good music in Walungurru starts in the Old Green Shed studio space… and often with a good jam!

Red Dust Music facilitators Steve, Kai and Matt spent much of Monday jamming with young wati (men) Luke, Winston, Fabian, Roy and Lindsay, ably led by Running Water band’s Francis and Ricky.

Soon we had a track … a lively western desert reggae groove, wildly propelled by young wati Luke (Kintore’s Keith Moon reincarnate) with a ska influenced refrain (reminiscent of early Elvis Costello)

As the numbers swelled in the old green shed (what happens when music radiates throughout the community) so did the lyrics for the track.

Most of the songs Red Dust have written with community over the last decade deal with the longing community mob have for their country, particularly when they are away. It’s a deep aching that music seems to help soothe.

This song is something a little different. It is more of a picture of the landscape and cultural connection to that. The chorus, ‘When you burn, life returns, colours change, everything is growing’ came from Francis and clearly spells out the community’s intrinsic relationship to the landscape and their part in its renewal. Also, for the first time in many Red Dust music projects, the group decided to sing the lyrics in English.

The song was then recorded live and the group worked on the phrasing for the melodies together.
Finally, a guide track was put down, and we made our way over to Yirara College to gain their input.

There was a small but keen class of senior students at Yirara College.

Daria, Jandelle, Mango, Celia, Trenton and Reagan were all keen to add their voices to the song and together we came up with the call and response backing vocals that are so distinct in this song.

The students in Kipara class at Walungurru School also added their enthusiasm and voice to the project.

Early in the week, we had a discussion with Walungurru School teaching assistant Shirley Conway about what the video might look like. Shirley was keen for the younger classes to be involved in the video and get them painted up to dance.

Once the word spread around the community, everyone got excited.
On the Thursday morning the whole community came down to the Sorry camp. It was the first time something like this had happened for a few years and the excitement was palpable.

For many of the young children from the school involved, this was their first dance in front of community.

Later that day we set the band up for the photoshoot in the roundabout at the entrance to Kintore.

Musicians:
Traditional song at start: Josephine Napurrula
Drums: Luke (unfortunately not drumming in video)
Bass: Ricky
Guitar: Francis
Piano; Winston
Organ: Luke
Vocals: Francis, Daria, Jandelle, Mango, Celia, Trenton, Reagan, Clarence, Jake, Leo, Akeisha and Henry

Filmed by Mr Mckenzie and EVTV. Back then cameras were really expensive and Anangu could only afford low quality formats with technical issues. This didn't stop them from recording this famous ceremony.

ICTV Community News November 2024 - Stick Mob (English)

"Punmu is a lovely place to live ... we've got everything we need out here." Cass Nanudie.

Punmu is a remote community situated in the Rundall River National Park in the Pilbara region, WA.

It has an average transient population of about 150 people, mostly Martu (and some white fellas).

From small beginnings 30 years ago, Punmu is now a well established remote community with an office, a general store and school.

Catch a slice of Martu life in 2 minutes.

Different types of Kriol are spoken from Ngukurr right though to Kununurra and down to Tennant Creek. A workshop brought linguists and Kriol speakers from across the Top End to talk about the way we speak

NG Lands Football: Irrunytju vs Mantamaru - July 8th, 2018.

Mantamaru Magpies 78

Defeated

Irrunytju Warriors 44

2018 AFL

Captured by the NG Media Outside Broadcast Crew

The agents of A.F.E.C.O. investigate an outbreak of rogue post-humans at a mining site in rural Australia. Zero-Point discovers there is more to the story than meets the eye.

ZERO-POINT: SEASON ZERO introduces to the world the first Indigenous hero; packed full of suped up terrorists, over-regulated superheroes, addictive “super-drugs”, Government lies and action-packed fight scenes. Filled with political subtext mirroring many contemporary social issues including the on-going fight for sovereignty of our First Nations people and the fallout of the top secret Maralinga Nuclear tests.

Based on the original comic book by writer/director Jonathon Saunders, ZERO-POINT features an all-star cast with award-winning actor MARK COLE-SMITH (The Drover’s Wife, Last Cab to Darwin, Picnic at Hanging Rock); as ZERO-POINT; STEPHEN OLIVER (Black Comedy) as the post-human terrorist SAMSON; and EBONY MCGUIRE (Yirra-Yaakin & Ilbijerri Theatre Company) as WING COMMANDER.

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 language, even though there are no equivalent sounds in English.

We had no written language so early settlers wrote down what they heard using their own language trying to reproduce the sounds.

In this series of short films we correct some of the language spelling of the places we all know and explain the meaning behind our stories.

Language needs a place to live, and this is a chance for us to tell our stories and our language.

Our language is sleeping, but will soon reawaken.

This video tells the story of how our Wadawurrung people were created by Bunjil, our spirit creator, at Kareet Bareet, now known as Black Hill near Gordon, not far from Ballaarat. This area was once covered in forest but is now largely a farming community, mainly of potatoes, due to the rich volcanic soils. That is why the Wadawurrung are known as the red soil people.

Story: Bryon Powell
Producers: Tammy Gilson & Larissa Romensky
Animation: Stephanie Skinner
Actors: Indigo Harrison

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

Desert Pea Media is very proud to announce a new collaboration with the Yaegl community in Yamba & Maclean, in the Lower Clarence Valley on the North Coast of NSW.

This production, along with a short film were created over 14 days in December 2019 - an outcome of a unique, collaborative creative process with Desert Pea Media artists, local Original Nations young people, community members, Elders, High School staff and local services.

This project is part of an ongoing connection between Desert Pea Media, Maclean High School and the Yaegl Community, spanning three years.

The overall purpose of this particular project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about social and emotional well-being for Original Nations young people in 8 communities around the North Coast. The project is called 'Break It Down - Community Conversations Around Well-being' - funded by North Coast Primary Health Network.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities :)

The connections created during this project with the community and local young people are friendships that the DPM team highly value and respect. We as a team feel deeply honored to learn, share and create with the Maclean/Yamba community. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved.

'Calling Into The Deep' was produced by DPM's in-house Music Producer Josh Nicholas aka 'Hazy'. We thank you brother for your artistic vision and awesome work.

Special thanks to Liza Hamilton and staff at Maclean High School for all of your incredible support, Uncle Ron Heron, Glenda Macphail, Aunty Lenore and all of the Yaegl Elders and community for having us on country.

We are deeply honored to be invited to learn, share and create with you and your family. We honor the ancestors and the stories that reside in this country, and we do our best to tread lightly, to be respectful and to contribute wherever possible.

Seasons of the Tiwi - Tiwi College: Written and performed by Yello with the staff and students of Tiwi College. Tiwi culture, Tiwi people, Tiwi language, Tiwi country. Always was always will be.

Nexus Arts will work with the Barngarla community (SA), Gunditj/Kurnai musician and student of linguistics Corey Theatre (SA), Ngaanyatjarra musician and choir leader Vonda Last (SA), Barngarla leader and linguistics student Stephen Atkinson (SA), and video and sound artist Dave Laslett (SA) to record traditional Barngarla songs and stories from Elders, and adapt and compose new songs in Barngarla through intergenerational music workshops for recording and public performance.



BACKGROUND

In recent language workshops in Port Augusta and Port Lincoln at the end of May 2016, Barngarla participants realised that there were still several Barngarla Elders alive with a substantial knowledge of language-related songs and music. As a tool for reclaiming the language and for reconnecting with Barngarla knowledge and heritage, community members discussed with the Gunditj/Kurnai musician and linguistics student Corey Theatre the recording, adapting and writing of Barngarla songs.

song is about Nyirripi Community Shannon Gallagher is performing in this Music video

We ask people from Yuendumu, Ulpanyali what they think about the Voice to Parliament (English subtitles)

This short film looks at saying 'you' and in Goldfields First Nations languages. Enjoy and check out our YouTube channel for more new films each week!

It’s not OK if someone shares – or says they will share – a nude or sexual image or video of you, without your consent. This is known as image-based abuse or revenge porn.

If this happens to you, eSafety can help.

Find online safety advice and support in multiple languages for First Nations people, including resources about how to be safe online and what to do if things go wrong: https://www.esafety.gov.au/first-nations

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Reading the Country is a series created by Warlpiri knowledge holders from the Northern and Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Ares with the Central Land Council.

Desert Pea Media are very proud to present the release of the debut single from ‘The Hill’. A collective of Indigenous young people, community members and Elders in Broken Hill, NSW.

Back in June 2023, the DPM Creative Team spent a week working with the Broken Hill Community, in partnership with Making Tracks - Far West NSW, an organisation focused on inspiring and empowering disengaged youth in Broken Hill & Far West NSW.

‘Butterfly’ is an emotive, melodic trap banger that articulates a very brave and inspiring conversation about the hard realities of growing up and living in Far West NSW. The song explores the impact of trauma and grief on the nervous system, and points towards positive pathways of connection to country and cultural identity.

Desert Pea Media is a community-driven media organisation that has been working to amplify the voices of remote and regional communities in Australia for over two decades. Through innovative arts and digital media initiatives, Desert Pea Media empowers individuals to tell their stories and celebrate their unique perspectives. www.desertpeamedia.com

Collaboratively written and produced by Desert Pea Media (featuring music by Sydney-based artist PEVCE.

Funded by the Department of Regional NSW.

Special thanks to the Wilyakali People of the Broken Hill region.

LYRICS

Kicking back with the fam an we keeping it real keeping it real keeping it real,
Sunset and we keeping it chill keeping it chill,
Moonlight over silver city - city lights an the nights feel still
Trying to fix this broken hill, broken hill

Welcome to 2880 where them drugs get sold like gravy,
Ain’t nothing been going on lately,
This towns been slowly fading,
Its thrills that everybody chasing,
Fight or flight we escaping
Trauma got my heart beat racing
I don’t feel like waking

My people fall through the cracks. Bored. Lack of support. In need of a talk.
Needing a walk. Fighting these thoughts. Going off track. Fighting a war in my head.
Under attack. Not enough said. Is it the lead. I feel it inside. It’s cold again.
I can’t hide from these butterflies. No matter how hard I try.

HOOK

Butterfly I don’t know where ima go but I’m gone try,
Butterfly butterfly deep inside
I let it go I let them fly, Butterfly
I’m feeling low I’m feeling high
Butterfly

We do this for our elders
They kept us safe an sheltered
They taught us how to be selfless,
So we do this for you
We do this for them

CO-WRITERS/PERFORMERS

Tyshon Riley, Eric Forbes, William Riley, Maliq King, Bogan Quayle, Jasmine Bates, Kruse Ebsworth, Lorraine Dutton, Jannali Doncaster, Toby Finlayson, Daniel Glossop & Desert Pea Media

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Toby Finlayson - Co-Director/Camera 2/Facilitator/Co-Writer/Co-Producer/Project Co-Director
Samuel Vines - DOP/Editor/Effects/Co-Director
Jannali Doncaster - Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator/Co-Director
Daniel Glossop - Music Producer/Sound Engineer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Lorraine Dutton - Co-Facilitator/Co-Writer
Scott Large - General Manager/Co-Producer/Co-Facilitator/Photographer/Graphic Design
Nick Andrews - Colour Grading
Nathaniel Sherwood - Audio Mixing/Mastering

From the EVTV archives, this is an Inma showing lots of different dances by the Pitjantjatjara people.

CAFL Grand final 2015 between Titjikala Hawks and Laramba Eagles.

This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

CAFL 2015 Grand Final between Yuendumu and Ti Tree. This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

Tug Of War

Filmed by Warburton School children. This film concept and production was created by the Warburton School kids.

John Echo 2019.

Head of the horse program teaching kids horse riding in Warmun.

The Bush Bands Bash ('BBB') program requires all participating bands to attend a 4 day professional development camp called 'Bush Bands Bash Business' held at Ross River Resort. The camp is held in a lead up to the main event, which this year took place on Sunday 8th September 2019.

This year the Mala Band from Amata successfully applied to attend the BBB. They went to Bush Bands Bash Business camp. They were also joined by their Anangu brothers from Docker River Band and Mutitjulu Band along with several other bands from across the country.

In 2019 PY Media once again actively supported the Bush Bands Bash program and attended, not just the main event, but also the last two days of the camp held in Ross River Resort in the Northern Territory in Australia.

On Saturday 7th September 2019, PY Media spoke with the Mala Band. Here are some of the band members' thoughts on the camp experience. Wirunya.

Event: Bush Bands Bash Business / Camp
Major Sponsor: MusicNT

Language: English and Pitjantjatjara Language

Music in the Video

The first song 'Island Music' by the Eylandt Band was recorded unplugged at the fireside at the camp on Friday 6th Sept 2019.

The second song 'Dream Girl' by the Mala Band was recorded live at the main Bush Bands Bash event held at the Telegraph Station in Alice Springs on Sunday 8th September 2019.

The Aurukun Indigenous Knowledge Centre received some great footage of a croc (Pikkuw in Wik language) attack on the weekend.

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 language, even though there are no equivalent sounds in English.

We had no written language so early settlers wrote down what they heard using their own language trying to reproduce the sounds.

In this series of short films we correct some of the language spelling of the places we all know and explain the meaning behind our stories.

Language needs a place to live, and this is a chance for us to tell our stories and our language.

Our language is sleeping, but will soon reawaken.

In this video we explain the meaning behind the place Ballaarat, now spelt Ballarat, and why it is such a good place to live. It was a gathering place for both Wadawurrung people and animals that moved off the grassy plains to shelter during winter.

Story: Bryon Powell
Producers: Tammy Gilson & Larissa Romensky
Animation: Stephanie Skinner
Actor: Indigo Harrison

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

Papunya Red Desert Warriors: Supporting Youth in Education and Life Skills Development (English)

ICTV will be broadcasting Bush Bands Bash Live, as part of our music day celebrations. Tune in on Sunday the 15th of September at 4pm CST to watch some special music performances!
…ICTV showing our way

Meet DPM Remix Artist and all-round legend - CHESHIRE

We put together this short docco to unpack the process of creating the lead single from the DPM Remix Album - Dropping this Friday December 9.

Cheshire’s remix of the Kakadu Collective classic from Jabiru NT - ‘Mayali’ features legendary artist and knowledge holder - Victor Rostron. For him - music is the stuff that connects us all.

This Friday December 9. Check the lead single from ‘Re-Imagine Nation’

Mayali ft. Victor Rostron [CHESHIRE REMIX]

ICTV Community News December 2024 - ICTV Community News December 2024 - Art Therapy

Darwin singer-songwriter Ali Mills sings her great creole version of Waltzing Matilda.

'Eyes Wide Open' was created as part of the 2012 'Song Nation' Project - a partnership between Desert Pea Media and The Smugglers Of Light Foundation.

The song was written, recorded and filmed as part of a three-day collaborative program at Ayr High School, Ayr QLD.

'Eyes Wide Open' looks at celebrating the success of Indigenous young people, of knowing who you are and where you come from and of being proud and strong.

2015 Lightning Carnival Day 1 Mt. Liebig Vs Desert Suns.

This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

CAN WA partnered with Quairading District High School (QDHS) and artist in residence, Steven Aiton in 2013 to develop a series of short animated films that portray Noongar dreamtime stories and experiences of students throughout the QDHS’s 100-year history.
One of the short films tells the story of Noongar Elder John Kickett who campaigned to have his children attend the local school in the early 1900s. The animation reveals how his efforts marked the beginning of the end of segregated education in Western Australia.
The animation project was funded by the Department of Culture and the Arts through the ArtsEdge Artist-In-Residency grants program.

A GRADE
Ltyentye Apurte vs MacDonnell Districts (Country League)

2017 CAFL Country League Grand Final: Sunday, 24 September 2017

Captured by the 2017 ICTV Live Team at Traeger Park: Kiara Bailey, Jamie Balfour, Gina Campbell, Ben McIntyre, Andre Sawenko and Micah Williams.

Special thanks to AFL Northern Territory and Andre Sawenko.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Mark Moora (dec) describes his early life growing up at Old Balgo Mission. Archival photos courtesy of the Sisters of St John of God.

Indigenous Outreach Project would like to give a massive thank you to MacDonnell Regional Council for the opportunity to deliver our our IOP Dance & Music Video Project in Papunya (Warumpi), Northern Territory. Also giving a big thank you to Sam, from Mac Youth Services, for organising everything on the ground and making sure it all ran smoothly.

To all the adults in the community that helped in the School as well as the youth and community members that were in this video, we couldn't have done it without you.

Chasing the Rainbow is a whimsical short film produced on a smart phone about memory and childhood. Sam shares her favourite spot to hang out with her friends as a child in Port Augusta, South Australia.

Chasing the Rainbow is part of UMEE STORIES: WE ALL HAVE YARNS presented by Umeewarra Aboriginal Media.

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Saibai Island, in the Top Western Torres Strait, just south of Papua New Guinea; at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. In the "Silent Dance" only drumming is heard.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

ICTV Community News December 2024 - IDA Rangers

Story about some kids who go missing from their mother's watchful eye just before dark. Jija, the dog, sets off with the Mum to search for the kids.

In this episode of doggie days, the star Doggie gets lost and has to perform tricks to find his real owners.

David Banjo shows us a 'video postcard' of life in Looma, his home community.

Spear of Destiny' was written, recorded and shot in just four days in Townsville, QLD as part of the Song Nation 2013 storytelling tour of Australia.

Uncle Alfred Smallwood is an Indigenous elder and community leader in Townsville, QLD who is creating real change for young men in his community.

Uncle Alfred's Men's Group is a volunteer service for young men caught up in the justice system, and who are trying to re-engage with community, culture and country and break the cycle of sentencing.

There is a focus on cultural mentoring, on 'reclaiming your spear' and taking responsibility for yourself and your family. This song and music video was created over four days in October 2013, to help spread Uncle Alfred's important message.

We would like to pay our respect to the people of the Bindal & Wulgurukaba, traditional owners of the country upon which this song was made.

Special thanks to Uncle Alfred Smallwood and Aunty Gail Mabo, Jane Westlake, Joel Westlake, Toby Finlayson, and of course all the Warriors from Uncle Alfred's Men's Group.

Steve Jampijinpa explains how language is one of the five pillars of Warlpiri life.

This film is part 2 of the reverse role play filmed in the Supreme Court of Darwin.

Looks at the museum in Wadeye.

BushTV Enterprises is an award winning Aboriginal media company owned by Ernie Dingo and Tom Hearn. BushTV is registered with Supply Nation and has offices in Darwin and Rockhampton. BushTV won the Queensland Government’s Reconciliation Award for its media work training and employing over 100 remote Indigenous people instrategic community based story production. Ernie Dingo’s commitment to the media industry and mentoring young Aboriginal people combined with Tom Hearn’s film making and business skills lies at the heart of BushTV’s success. More info at: www.bushtv.com.au

This video shows Violet Wadrill Nanaku demonstrating how to make wirriji (hair string).

It was produced by Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland).

For more information, contact Felicity Meakins (f.meakins@uq.edu.au) or Karungkarni Art (karungkarniart@gmail.com).

Short video about a man who has problems when he starts choking on a chicken bone. Filmed as part of ALPA CDP Media training activity at Galiwin'ku community.

Many families and friends are strong at Ntaria.

Episode 11 : Barry, Emslie and Family.

Being a parent is very special. Barry and Emslie talk about the joys of being a parents.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Stephen Pigram: Such Is Life

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

It’s 1963 in the Australian outback and master tracker Billy Benn is being chased by the police for the murder of his wife’s lover. Can Benn escape and find solace in the outback or will the police led by fellow tracker Teddy Egan catch up to him?

Some twenty years later the police are in full force again running through the forest but this time they are not chasing a criminal, instead it is a race against time. A 6-year-old girl has been lost and stranded deep in the forest already for nine days and her survival, if possible, will depend on how quickly authorities can locate her. Once again the police will rely on the keen sense of a tracker for success. Where others see only a forest, Musgrave spots clues and signs as he reads the environment like a map.

Similarly the police have relied on the trackers’ mysterious abilities to break up a drug ring, rescue a stranded photographer in the desert, and find a young cowboy who disappeared during a stampede.

Trackers have been around for centuries and when the police realized that it would be interesting to put them to use in tracking escaped and missing persons, Australia was still a British penal colony. But in this age of GPS, 4×4 vehicles and helicopters, are we letting go of something more fundamental – an intuitive knowledge linking man to nature?

Featured in this film will be some of the last great trackers of the outback, including George Musgrave, Teddy Egan Jangala, Tommy George, and Mitjili Gibson. We will bring their most dramatic stories to life by recreating their gripping adventures deep in the unknown corners of the Australian Outback, traversing lush rainforests and wild rivers, magnificent gorges and deep water holes, dry savannahs, and red deserts in search of the soon-to-be lost Aboriginal art of the tracker.

The lyrics are inspired by the lives of the Woolianna community, celebrating connection to Country, culture, and family. The kids poured their hearts into this project, expressing their identity as Woolianna kids through the power of language, dance, and music.

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Children's showering song sung by Aboriginal children; part of a health strategy programme in remote north-west of South Australia. This strategy was established by the Nganampa Health Council and is known as Uwankara Palyanku Kanyintjaku meaning A Strategy for Well Being.

Mandy explains the six seasons of the Top End of Australia. Whilst most people separate tropical Australia seasons to the Wet and the Dry Season, the Bininj people have six distinct seasons.

With special thanks to Rachael Wallis, Ineke Wallis, Caleb Corbett, Stu Kellaway, Grace Wunungmurra, Jessica Wunungmurra, Richard Mann, Terence Wunungmurra, Elenie Bromot, Roger Gellett, TourismNT, The Hog Shed, Rirratjingu Aboriginal Corporation, Gumatj Aboriginal Corporation, Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation, Arafura Dance Association, The Walkabout Hotel, The Arnhem Club, Nhulunbuy Corporation Limited, ARDS Yolngu Radio, GoveFM, Traditional Custodians

Water is Life is a documentary about the Aboriginal communities fighting against fracking plans in the NT. They learn from First Nations brothers and sisters in the US who are suffering the effects of greedy gas companies, and call on you to join their fight.

Derby band The Cruisers perform live at Saltwater Festival 2018 in Broome.

Taken from J-MILLA's debut EP “Straight Up”

ICTV Community News - Tiwi Island win court case against Santos (Western Arrarnta)

Kalumburu Mens Grandfinal 2022
Our Lady Feast Day Festival

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

BBB23 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

Reggae from Central Australia has a unique sound with a mix of ska, country and reggae. Band members live in remote Central Australian communities where there is poor access to the internet, making marketing difficult. This video encourages bands to get their material up there so we can all enjoy their amazing music, and they can get booked for gigs at festivals across the country.

ICTV Community News Episode 7- 2nd August 2024 (English)

ICTV Community News December 2024 - CONVERGE Summit

Traditional Inma performed in Mimili in 1995 (Part 1)

When a young man posts photos of sacred cave paintings on Facebook he angers his people and has to face the consequences of his actions.
"This film, Mamu, it's about right, it's about wrong. It's about the past and the future, the new and the old." - Curtis Taylor

Live music Clip Beagle Bay Keep Culture festival 2013

Live Music Film clip from Keep Culture Festival 2013,Beagle Bay

Aunty Ruth Murray tells the story of her life and how she came back to country to Balranald.

A story about land ownership, artistic collaboration and the creation of a huge painting of great significance. The Ngurrara people know their desert country - it's where they grew up. But to claim their native title they need to show their knowledge and ownership of the land in a way that makes sense to them and visiting Native Title Tribunal. They decide to paint their country - on a massive scale. Seventy artists set to work on a specially made canvas measuring eight by ten metres.

This short film illustrates a fight that starts online, which then becomes a physical fight between two young women who are both involved with the same man. The dispute is settled by family involvement.

The Black Image Band performing live at the UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival on 1 August, 2015 at Fogarty Park, Cairns.

This song is an original called "Colour of your skin".

UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival is UMI Arts' annual signature event that showcases Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples with connection to Far North Queensland. For more info visit www.umiarts.com.au

Here it is! The second song from our debut EP - Struggle!

Struggle is a story about our community, our people - the struggle we face as Indigenous peoples. When we sing ‘make a change’ we are singing to black fellas and white fellas, to everyone, we’ve all got a part to play. It’s about the change we need to make - as a nation, as a community, and every day for ourselves.

Release via Wantok Musik. Music video by Sam Frederick starring Jack Namarnyilk and directed by Richie Guymala. Filmed in Darwin, Palmerston and at Fanny Bay Gaol.

Struggle recorded by Andy Baldwin (Rola Pola Studios) at Subsonic Studios and Kapalga Outstation. Mastered by Joe LaPorta (Sterling Sound).

Full album out in May!

Part of the 'Break It Down: Community Conversations Around Mental Health' project 2017/2018. (DPM/PHN WNSW)

Chasing the western ideal can turn out to be hollow, and lead to depression, if your spiritual self is not in the right place. For George Coe, that journey brought him back to his roots, by the river where he grew up. On country, George reconnected with the ancient ways that make him who he is today. Now his goal is to provide the kids of his community with direction, while placing the necessary emphasis on cultural wisdom, to ensure they don’t have to go down the tough path that he has walked before. George has big hopes for his community, and his people, and knows that respecting the land is the only way to get there.

90 years later the people of woorabinda retrace their ancestors steps in the walk that took them from taroom to woorabinda

Interschool Sports Carnival 2018

As part of the Theatre Kimberley Outreach program, the Big Country Puppets artistic team visited Yakanarra Community for one month, a small remote community in the Fitzroy River Valley. Lead theatre artist Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman and theatre artist Eduardo Maher worked with the Ngurrara Women Rangers, elders Beryl Dickens and Jessie Moora, and students from the school to create a theatre performance using giant puppetry and song. The Big Country Puppets project draws on the Rangers' knowledge of their Country's ecology. The Rangers choose the project's location and themes for the theatre project.
The Big Country Puppets projects fuse art and science, as well as maintaining a focus on endangered Aboriginal languages within the production process and performance of each theatre show. The script and songs for the Yakanarra project are written in English and Walmajarri, and the songs were co-written rehearsed and performed by students.
A local dreaming story 'Karnanganyja jaa Likjartiwarnti' (The Emu and the Fork Tailed Kites) from Jessie Moora was adapted for performance, and a new theatre script about an endangered skink ' Jilji the Skink' was co-written with the Ngurrara Rangers, who found this skink during a biodiversity survey in 2021. This story also showcases the rangers fire management work through Right way/Wrong way fire work. The puppets for both of these stories were designed and built with the Rangers, including the Ngurrara Men's Rangers and students from Yakanarra Community school.
A rap song about Jilji the Skink was written in Walmajarri language and in English by Lyrical Instinct (Broome rapper Jacob Gregory) Yakanarra Community school students, with the help of local linguists and language speakers Jessie Moora and Beryl Dickens.
Theatre Kimberley thanks our project partners , Yanunijarra Aboriginal Corporation, Kimberley Language Resource Centre, Environs Kimberley and Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency and to our funders:
Standing Strong Together Act-Belong-Commit Healthway @IndigenousArtsandLanguagesFund
Thanks also to PAKAM - Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media for filming our show.

Kiwami MB9 Wagyu Beef Experience

For me this is a once a year kind of steak, it truely is amazing! If you’re into your steaks and haven’t tried something like this it’s definitely worth the money - obviously not cheap, this is not for a family feast, this is for the experience.

Let me know how you would have cooked a steak like that!
P.S how’s the marbling!! Unreal aye!
Thanks for watching!

ICTV Community News Segment_Wilya Janta - Mudbrick Update.mp4

Desert Pea Media is honoured to present 'The Island'. An archival film production from 2019 - created in collaboration with the Bwlgcolman and Munburra Community of Palm Island, co-created by DPM film makers, Mitch O'Hearn and Toby Finlayson.

This production was created as part of a broader project, produced and facilitated by visionary charity organisation - Desert Pea Media. The project series was called 'Break It Down - Community Conversations around Wellbeing' - funded by the Northern QLD Primary Health Network.

Before watching, please be aware that this film is not an easy yarn.

'The Island' is a brave, real and important conversation about the impact of grief and trauma on Indigenous Australia - specifically around Aboriginal deaths in custody. We wanted to make sure that you are aware of the content of this story - as it may be triggering for some people ❤️.

Please reach out to somebody if you need support.

'The Island' was Co-Directed, Shot and Edited by filmmaker - Mitch O'Hearn. We thank you brother for your artistic integrity, commitment and passionate work with our DPM family over the years.

Special thank you and congratulations to the Doomadgee family, and all of the Palm Island people and families, whose generosity of spirit, resilience and love make these films possible. To all the deadly mob that shared their stories, also to Frank and Lindsay at Palm Island PCYC, to Jeannie Samm and staff at PICC, and to Aunty Lizzie Doomadgee and Uncle Allen Palm Island.

CREDITS

Mitch O'Hearn - Co-Director/DOP/Editor/Graphics
Toby Finlayson - Co-Director/Producer
Josh Nicholas - Audio Engineer
Holly Robinson - Production Coordinator
Anthony Martino - Location Sound
Ciolla Riley - Facilitator/Mentor

On a picnic in the West Macdonnells these tjitji mankurpa (three kids) were showing how clever they were with the 'head, shoulders knees and toes' song in Pitjantjatjara. We thought we'd make it into a little movie to help you learn the song as well

Live Music Film clip from Keep Culture Festival 2013,Beagle Bay

From 1st July 2015, the Adjumarllarl Aboriginal Corporation (AAC) have taken control of the Gunbalanya store from the West Arnhem Regional Council. A celebration was held on the 22nd July to celebrate. A proud day for the Bininj people of Gunbalanya, reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.

First Languages Australia short with Corey Theatre speaking Gunditjmara.

This video is from a series of videos produced by First Languages Australia that originally appeared on the Gambay Languages map. The map can be viewed at https://gambay.com.au/

That's Australia Series 1 – EP 25 Bull Buggies

This video gives a short overview of the Milingimbi community in north-east Arnhem Land and the role ALPA plays in the community.

From the PAKAM archives: Warmun Eagles Vs Ord River Magpies - Filmed by Troy Albert.

Ornmol (Ochre) - With subtitles.

The Mowanjum Aboriginal Art and Cultural Centre is a creative hub for the Worrorra, Ngarinyin and Wunumbal tribes, who make up the Mowanjum community outside Derby, Western Australia.

These three language groups are united by their belief in the Wandjina as a sacred spiritual force and the creators of the land. They are the custodians of Wandjina law and iconography.

The centre hosts exhibitions, workshops and community projects, as well as the annual Mowanjum Festival, one of Australia's longest running indigenous cultural festivals.

More info here: http://www.mowanjumarts.com

Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu.

This series consists of four short films in which Warlpiri women sing, dance and tell the stories of different ancestral beings who travel across Warlpiri country. Each part contains footage of these women singing, painting their bodies with red and white ochre and performing the accompanying dances. The first part presents the Minamina yawulyu and tells of group of ancestral women as they emerge from Minamina, in the far west of Warlpiri country and begin their journey eastwards. Part 2 presents the songs and stories of the Watiyawarnu ancestors from Ngurlulirri-nyinanya, to the north-west of Yuendumu, telling of their travels as they search for varieties of acacia seed, grinding them and making seed cakes along the way. Part 3 presents the famous songs and story of the two Jangalas from Warlukurlangu whose evil blue-tongue lizard father lights a raging bush fire, forcing them to run away southwards out of their country before they return home, weak and exhausted. And finally, part 4 presents the songs and stories of the Ngapa ‘Rain’ Dreaming that travels westwards across the country to the north of Yuendumu. Warlpiri women from Yuendumu have presented these yawulyu so that the songs and their associated knowledge can be remembered and performed by future generations of Warlpiri women. These films appear on a DVD which comes as an accompanying insert in the book ‘Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women’s songs from Yuendumu’ (Batchelor Institute Press, 2017).

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

The Mexicans: Kimberley

Lajamanu Teenage Band from Freedom Day Festival 2018

Speaking in Gamilaraay lingo is a top priority for the students and teachers at Toomelah Public School, just south of the QLD/NSW border.

Guided by Carl McGrady and Sue Swann, students learn the Gamilaraay language alongside subjects like Maths and English.

How do they learn it?

Enter the space designated as their language room and you will see posters with both Gamilaraay and English words, games like 'Lingo Bingo' and Gamilaraay language textbooks.

There is a definite hands-on approach to the teaching and learning.

Sometimes the wide open space of the playground becomes the classroom.

With a stew bubbling away on the campfire and Johnny cakes slowly baking on the coals, students connect Gamilaraay lingo to the ingredients and everyday objects that are being used.

After all the hard work is done it's time to ""Maa wurri nganha!""


Produced by Ben Tupas

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

Decided to try my luck to snag a fish at Crystal Cascade while visiting Cairns in far North Queensland!

Yindjibarndi performing artist, Wimiya Woodley has graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He is now actively auditioning for new roles and opportunities as an actor and wanted to inspire his family and friends in Ieramagadu (Roebourne) to get out of the Pilbara and explore new places to grow.

Young Aboriginal people perform a dance associated with the brolga, a large water bird that has great significance in the culture of Arnhem Land, during the Barunga Festival in 1995. A Song Man with clap sticks and a didjeridu accompanies the dance, characterised by high leaps and the sound the brolga makes.

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform the "Kab Kar", a traditional dance from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They wear the "dhari" headdress made with cockatoo feathers. This was the very first time these boys performed this complex traditional dance.

Peppi School with Red Dust Role Models

This short film is about kinship pairings in the Goldfields region of Western Australia.

Enjoy and check out GALCAC's YouTube channel for a new film each week!

Dena Curtis shares how the language she speaks shapes her life.

Language: Warrumungu, Warlpiri, Arrernte

This year… 2022… marks the start of the UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages… which aims to build a global community for the preservation, revitalization and support of Indigenous languages. To start the conversation here First Languages Australia has asked Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language speakers what language means to them.

#language #indigenousaustralians #languageandme

Torres Strait islander students, boys and girls from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, perform a dance from Badu Island, in the Central Western Torres Strait, during the Townsville Cultural Fest. The song is called "Gumi Rangadh".

BBB23 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

For Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara. No subtitles. Caring for dogs in communities. PLEASE VIEW WITH DISCRETION ANANGU HAVE PASSED AWAY.

ICTV Community News November 2024 - CBA Awards (Warlpiri) - Ngaarda Media

Uncle Lenny tells the story of his life, the Blockade, his fight for Land Rights and why he still lives on his country at Framlingham.

Full Concert Video of the Battle of the Bands, from the NG Lands Festival held in Wingellina, 2016.

Captured by the NG Media Live events team.

A Miriwoong language special on country, from Miriwoong Country in the East Kimberley.

Waringarri Radio 6WR is the number 1 radio station in the East Kimberley and is proud to be the only local community radio station in the area.

Their vision is to be the Aboriginal voice of the North East Kimberley.

More info at their website: www.waringarriradio.com.au

Enterprise house on Knuckey street in the Darwin CBD was renamed to Binyolkga house at a special ceremony on Monday 12 April 2018.The name Binyolkga is a Larrakia word meaning “Big Mob,” and was given to the building by board members of Larrakia nation, who saw it as a fitting name for the growth of Danila Dilba.

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Celestine Rowe - Speak Now

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

A behind the scenes look at Adam James's new 2021 Blues album 'Russian Blue', recorded and produced in Nashville, USA.

Palti -Dance, Ceremony or Performance: Jaylon explores the language used to describe aspects of cultural ceremonies, dance, etc

The new film clip for “Ball and Chain” features J-MILLA and the Kabi Kabi dancers. Shot in both Super 8 and HD the clip was directed by Solomon Scopazzi at the historical Majestic Theatre in Pomono on the Sunshine Coast and boasts a beautiful sense of nostalgia intersecting with the now.

“After a shaky start with a cancellation due to Covid we managed to all get together and film the video for “Ball and Chain”. It was a classic day collaborating with J-MILLA, who is just a massive big ball of sunshine and local Kabi Kabi dancers. Plenty of laughs and good times to finish off a weird year and shine some light into an otherwise serious track.”

Previously released tracks from “Jan Juc Moon; “Stoney Creek” and “We Deserve To Dream” are streaming strongly with over 12 million streams globally and gaining momentum. Xavier Rudd’s international tour dates kicked off with strong ticket sales in all eighteen countries and sell out shows in Amsterdam, Antwerp and Brussels, the latter three cities recently adding second shows due to popular demand.

Nothing compares to experiencing Xavier Rudd in concert who is truly at his best on stage in the company of his fans. Acoustic guitar in hand, engulfed by an ever more complex scaffold of didgeridoos, percussion and various eclectic instruments, Xavier cuts an utterly unique and compelling figure. One of Australia’s most successful international artists Xavier Rudd has amassed huge followings in Australia, North America and Europe – he chooses idyllic destinations such as Spain, Portugal and Croatia and of course his home country Australia where his music, his message, and the environment around him all meet in stunning synchronicity.

Two men from Mowanjum (an Aboriginal community near Derby, Western Australia) wearing masks perform a traditional kangaroo hunting dance with spears and spear thrower, accompanied by a song man with clap sticks at the Barunga Festival, 2018.

This song / video was recorded in the communities of Arlparra (Utopia) and Ampilatwatja in December 2017 to promote the release of the new 'Good Tucker' app. This app is designed to make choosing healthier foods a fun and easy experience for people of all ages.
Visit this link to download it for free! http://thumbsup.org.au/good-tucker/

Thank you to Barkly Regional Council and Clean Faces, Strong Eyes for making this project possible! Menzies Institute for Medical Research University of South Australia

Walking Through The Smoke (Music Video)

Written By - Halls Creek District High School, Dallas Woods, Julian Jovanovski & Dion Brownfield
Produced by - JUJO
Filmed by - Johnny Yayo

Lyrics
If you don’t want to do it, then just say no
Woooo ohhhh ohh ohh Yeah Yeah
Listen to your gut, go with the flow
Woooo ohhhh ohh ohh Yeah Yeah

Walking through the Smoke Yeah yeah

Yeah Yeah
Walking through the Smoke Yeah yeah
Yeah Yeah


Here’s a song for my friends and my Jij
Hanging out fishing under Mary River Bridge
Chilling it down at lil’ Rockhole
Yarning up against drugs and alcohol
Don’t poison your body or make yourself choke
cleanse your spirit walk through the smoke
Our ol’ people strong they never smoked bong
teaching us mob, to all get along
We are the Kija, Jaru tribe
We need our mob to survive
Make the right choice, focus on yourself
Reach out for help, for good mental health
Instead of having wild thoughts and making a fuss
Get some help, find someone you trust
HCQ when push comes to shove
We all about respect, peace and love


If you don’t want to do it, then just say no
Listen to your gut, go with the flow

If you don’t want to do it, then just say no
Listen to your gut, go with the flow


If I say NO then it means NO
Gotta keep our mental & our body strong
Poisoning our body that’s a NO NO
Healing our spirit walk through the smoke
If I say NO then it means NO

Gotta keep our mental & our body strong
Poisoning our body that’s a NO NO
Healing our spirit walk through the smoke
Walking through the smoke yeah yeah
Woohooooooo
Walking through the smoke yeah yeah
Woohooooooo
Walking through the smoke yeah yeah


Young mob, better listen up
You gotta get your health and education up
Stop thinking that you aint enough (you enough)
Nothing but love for my cousin and my bruz
Not messing with the grog and the drugs
Not being silly and running and muck
Tryna be the best version of me
be free, you ‘ free if you’re running from the cops
culture that’s my sweet escape
language thats my happy place
if you feeling down gotta go for a walk and talk
open up if you’re feeling safe
we sick and tired of arguments
peer pressure that’s a part of it
they fighting stealing cars again
but we all know how that all ends


If you don’t want to do it, then just say no
Listen to your gut, go with the flow
If you don’t want to do it, then just say no
Listen to your gut, go with the flow


If I say NO then it means NO
Gotta keep our mental & our body strong
Poisoning our body that’s a NO NO
Healing our spirit walk through the smoke
If I say NO then it means NO
Gotta keep our mental & our body strong
Poisoning our body that’s a NO NO

Healing our spirit walk through the smoke

Walking through the smoke yeah yeah

Wooo

Yeah Yeah
Wooooaaahh

Walking through the smoke yeah yeah

The main traditional ceremony of the Tiwi Aboriginal people is the "Ilaninga" or Pukumani ceremony connected with death. Carved and painted poles, commissioned by the family of the deceased are displayed on the site where the funeral dances take place, near the house of the deceased. This was filmed in 1987 in Nguiu, Bathurst Island, Australia, with a video camera and unfortunately the tape has suffered; excuses for the wind noise.

Bush Bands Bash 2023 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

BBB23 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

Girls Rugby - TEAMS: Lismore V Casuarina
Location: Lismore
Date: 12/07/2024

ICTV Community News Episode 8 - 5th September 2024 (Western Arranda)

ICTV Community News Dewcember 2024 - ATSIAGA

A Catch and Cook Goanna Video

Pitjantjatjara verb language lessons translated in English by girls at Docker River

Mikailah came up with this movie when we went to do some filming up the hill behind Pukatja store. She was inspired by seeing all the car wrecks at sunset. She gave everyone their instructions and we were off and filming, hurrying before the sun went down. Dialogue was totally freeform, and spoken at a completely normal speed for these creative young kungka tjuta.

A Miriwoong special interview with the Kununurra police, from Miriwoong Country in the East Kimberley.

Waringarri Radio 6WR is the number 1 radio station in the East Kimberley and is proud to be the only local community radio station in the area.

Their vision is to be the Aboriginal voice of the North East Kimberley.

More info at their website: www.waringarriradio.com.au

Some of the women artists from Artists of Ampilatwatja talk about traditional bush medicine plants and seeds.

Full length version. Barkly Regional Arts and the Tennant Creek Womens Refuge have created 'Which Way? Right Way', a media project to better understand the impact and prevalence of Domestic Violence in our community. Barkly Regional Arts have made 6 x 45 second TV Commercials that show how DV affects everyone in the community.

If you are in a DV situation there are people who can support you.
For Emergencies call 000
TC Women's Refuge 08 89 621 940
131 444 - Police assistance line for non-emergencies
1800 333 000 - TOLL FREE - Crime Stoppers (callers can remain anonymous)

For information on this project, please contact
Barkly Regional Arts
Kathy Burns, Artistic Director
P | 08 8962 2799
E | artisticdirector@barklyarts.com.au

Created by: Barkly Regional Arts for the Tennant Creek Women's Refuge.
Funded by the Department of Social Services through the 'Building Safer Communities Grant'

In this weeks episode we get to see our Girls Academy latest music video, enjoy showing our campus to some visitors and get to work with some fellas from CMS.

YCTV E8 T2 - 2018

First Languages Australia short with o speaking about the Kalkutungu language.

First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

Baker Boy drops his fourth track in a year and this time it comes with a political punch swathed in positivity. Black Magic is as political as they come yet the prince of positivity delivers it in his deadly uplifting style. Featuring his main man and song-writing collaborator Dallas Woods on guest vocals Black Magic hitd your frequency Freaky Friday the 13th.

Musically speaking Black Magic takes a sharp left from Baker Boy’s usual MO. Hard hitting guitar in the chorus and raw lyrics throughout the track holler out his proud heritage.

Baker Boy wesbite: https://www.bakerboyofficial.com/

Directed, shot and edited by: BraydenFunFilms
Filmed on location in Mornington Peninsula and Melbourne, VIC

90's Aussie iconic rock band 'Chocolate Starfish' have teamed up with indigenous Hip Hop duo 'Karnage n Darknis' to re-invent Chocolate's 90's hit song MOUNTAIN.

Recorded and filmed at CAAMA studios and surrounds, Alice Springs NT, Australia
GET YOUR COPY HERE: https://CAAMA.lnk.to/Mountain2

Footage Captured during the 2018 Balgo Sports Festival.

"Niminjarra" is a story owned by Warnman people of the Great Sandy Desert in WA.
Two young men transformed themselves into snakes to make their way home from law ceremony to their mother in the west. They were pursued by “Niminjarra” spirit beings all the way to Lake Dora.
The two snakes met their fate there, but their spirits entered the salt lake and remain in the water table under the surface. The “Niminjarra” were the ancestors of the Warnman people who live in the region today.

KINTORE SONG - Walungurru.

Produced by Red Dust Role Models.

A moving repatriation ceremony was held at the National Museum of Australia to mark the official handover of ancestors to Kaurna Elders Jeffrey Newchurch and Merle Simpson.

Video produced by the Department of Communications and the Arts Australia in celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages.

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 English. There is no single word in Gunai for ‘tree’. The word they use to name a tree will depend on the food it yields, what species it is and what cultural and medicinal function it might serve. Born of some of the world’s greatest environmentalists, it makes sense that the Gunai language expresses the intimate knowledge its interlocutors share of their natural world.

‘Language isn’t just about speaking, it’s your whole way of life,’ explained Lynnette Solomon-Dent. ‘It tells you what’s in the country, what the stories are, what your obligations are to each other.’ Unpack a single word and you can start to understand a system of kin relations and cultural obligations that are still alive and well. The word for ‘mother’ doubles as the word used for Lynnette’s sisters. If anything happened to Lynnette, her sisters would automatically become mothers to her children. It’s all there in the language.

The scope of words we have and use reveals a lot about what we care about, where our attention lies and what kind of world we live in. In the Arrernte language of Central Australia, there is a single word for ‘the smell of rain’ and for ‘debris from trees floating, left over from a flood’. The Yindiny language spoken south of Cairns has highly specialised terms for noises. ‘Ganga’ means ‘the sound of someone’s feet approaching’ and ‘yuyurungul’ means ‘the shushing noise of a snake sliding through the grass’. Pitjantjatjara has no words for numbers beyond three, but like Gunai and countless other Indigenous languages, it contains extremely complex vocabulary surrounding kinship relations and natural phenomena – right down to describing types of lightening and the spectrum of colours in the sky.

A language can bring you into a community or it can keep you apart from one. Anybody who has travelled in a foreign country without a grasp of its language can attest to the bewildering sense of disconnection from the people, landscape and culture. Words can help you see beyond your peripheral vision. Dr Doris Paton hopes that Australians will turn their heads to embrace the many different languages and countries we have on board our great big island, and all the little islands surrounding it. ‘[Our languages] are quite distinct like in Europe, and that sharing of language also shares knowledge, as it does in European languages.’

The biggest difference is that unlike the majority of European languages, our Indigenous languages are vanishing at an alarming rate. Across the country, people like Doris, Lynnette and Hollie are racing against the clock to revive their ancestral languages, protect over 40,000 years of knowledge and offer all of us the opportunity to better understand this country and its Indigenous caretakers, from the inside out.

Feel free to share your response to the film or the ideas in this blog, using the ‘feedback’ form below. For more background on the GunaiKurnai language and culture of East Gippsland, check out a fantastic article with audio links by ABC Open Producer Rachael Lucas on some local GunaiKurnai place names and click here for a great yarn about a recent canoe-building building project in Gippsland, led by Gunai elder Uncle Albert Mullett. Check out other documentary films produced as part of the 'Our Mother Tongue' series here.

Please note, the Australian Aboriginal Languages map featured in the film is just one representation of many other map sources that are available for Aboriginal Australia. Using published resources available between 1988–1994, this map attempts to represent all the language or tribal or nation groups of the Indigenous people of Australia. It indicates only the general location of larger groupings of people which may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. Boundaries are not intended to be exact. This map is NOT SUITABLE FOR USE IN NATIVE TITLE AND OTHER LAND CLAIMS. David R Horton, creator, © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996. No reproduction allowed without permission.

ABC Open Producer: Suzi Taylor

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

Seaside Drifters bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

Desert Pea Media is very proud to present a new collaboration with the community of Coomealla/Dareton NSW.

This production was created in April of 2021 - an outcome of a unique, collaborative creative process between Desert Pea Media, Coomealla Health Aboriginal Corporation (a local Indigenous-led Health Service) and an incredibly talented group of students at Coomealla High School, who represent Barkindji and Maraura Tribal Groups.

The overall purpose of the broader project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about social and emotional well-being for Original Nations young people. Focusing on cultural identity, wellbeing and connection to country.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities.

We as a team feel deeply honoured and grateful to learn, share and create with the Coomealla community. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved.

This project was Directed by filmmaker, facilitator, and hip hop artist Roy Weiland, and co-facilitated by acclaimed Bundjalung hip hop artist 'JK47' or Jacob Paulson. Music Produced by DPM Music Producer Josh Nicholas. See below for full credits.

Special thanks to Jaharlyn Mitchell and the staff at CHAC and Coomealla High School.

Special thanks to the TO's of Coomealla - The Barkindji People, and all of the Clan Groups of the region that participated, welcomed us and shared their country for the creation of this production. We are humbled and grateful for your trust and support.

CREDITS

Roy Weiland - Director/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator/Editor/Grading & Graphics Josh Nicholas - Project Lead/Music Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator, Jacob Paulson (JK47) , Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator Ross Turley - DOP/2nd Camera , Grace Newell - Production Coordinator/Photographer/Co-Producer. Nathaniel Sherwood - Audio Mixing/Mastering. Renae Saxby - Social Media Manager, Scott Large - General Manager Jaharlyn Mitchell - Co-Producer/Community Project Coordinator

STARRING

Olivia Kennedy, Kyanna Dixon, Alannah Shiner, Maya Moore, Annezey-lee Johnson (AJ), Lleyton Johnson, Domanic Poli, Ian Dixon, Duron Johnson, Labroun Winters, Elsie Jones, Lamia Jones, Keira Harris, Kyanna Garlett, Chenille Taylor, Zyeria Kelly, Lydia Wandin, Josh Nicholas, Jacob Paulson, Roy Weiland.

LYRICS

Barkindji/Maraura the place where I’m from
Where the Barka meets the Murray where our people belong
We one mob! So you know our spirit is strong
Its been 60,000 years and our cultures still lives on

I didn’t know what happened in ’67’
Till I sat with my aunt and she told me bout the Referendum
A right to vote. It gave us hope (helped lighten the load)
Our elders spoke amongst the fire and smoke

Its time we make a change, so you can’t be scared
Leave ya shame at the door sis its time to share
Time to love one another but that takes respect
And I can feel it as my heart beats step by step

Lets talk more about our mental health
Because we all got a story that we’re meant to tell (gotta help yourself)
Leave the grog up on the shelf you don’t need it
Gotta listen up when your elders are speaking

Disconnect from disrespect
Look straight ahead and have a vision my bred
Focus on education this nation we gotta protect
Showing respect has a ripple effect (yea)

We walk beside the river and amongst the red dust
So its time to take a stand for the country we love
Look inside for your dreaming and never give up
Cause your country gonna help you when it starts to get rough

HOOK

Culture runs through the Barka the Barka is life
Its written in the stars when I look up at night
Yea we Barkindji muupa’s (kids) we strong and proud
Standing up tall and we yelling it loud

Musgrave Band - Sunset (Live now!)
Musgrave band playing their song called Sunset live in PY Media studio.

Indulkana Sports Weekend: WINTJALANGU SAINTS VS INDULKANA TIGERS

Yajilarra Junba 2021

Official music video clip for 'Camp Dog' by King Stingray

Come Together was written, recorded and produced in Nauiyu community with Red Dust in April 2023. The incredibly talented students from Saint Francis Xavier College and community members from Nauiyu worked with renowned producer Nathan Fejo, the amazing MrMonk, local legends Joe Matheson and Dylan Mingunn and videographer Leigh from Maitree to create this music video that tells the story of diversity, resilience and inclusion that is the community of Nauiyu. Made in partnership with the Mirriam Rose Foundation and Saint Francis Xavier School. Big shout to Shotgun, Plugger, Matty and the might Daly River Buffaloes.

A short smart phone film that offers real insight into life in an Aboriginal family in Port Augusta, South Australia. Maria has offered an intimate view of her family in her film.

A Day Out With Nanna is part of UMEE STORIES: WE ALL HAVE YARNS presented by Umeewarra Aboriginal Media.

This short documentary, produced by Warlpiri man Josef Jakamarra Egger, captured the Working together for better drinking water in the bush forum collaboratively delivered in partnership with the Australian Government through the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Goyder Institute for Water Research and Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA). The forum brought together diverse participants from across South Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia, including Aboriginal community representatives, land councils, utilities, health regulators, service providers and national, state and territory, and local government agencies.

The forum outcomes were also documented in a report and is a culmination of the collaborative efforts and insights shared at the forum, which identified twelve pivotal actions critical to advancing the provision of safe and reliable drinking water in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. This can be found on the Goyder Institute for Water Research website - https://goyderinstitute.org/project/working-together-for-better-drinking-water-in-the-bush/

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

ICTV Community News - 15th of November 2024 (English)

A Larapinta Valley film. Concept and Idea by Alistair Splinter

Bernadette Angus reports from the Kimberley Land Council AGM in Gambanan, WA.

Live Performance by Gulingi Nunga

Fitzroy Express Rock out with this music video of "Samantha"

From Tennant Creek, The Barkly Boys sing Breath Away.

Live Music Film clip from Keep Culture Festival 2013,Beagle Bay

Traditional owner David Claudie tells the story and the meaning of 'Malandaji'.

Two ninjas break rob the school and kidnap one of the teachers. The Noonkanbah police must meet them with a ransom and a fight ensues. The police win and lock up the ninjas, but the ninjas have other ideas!

Semi Final from the 2015 Lightning Carnival between Papunya and Kintore

This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

Animation of the story of Yulu the Kingfisher Man by Adnyamathanha community with SharingStories Foundation.

I am Australian by Yabu Band

Live recording from Beagle Bay Keep Culture Festival by PAKAM

Baker Boy is the freshest new Yolngu hiphop talent from Northern Territory Australia who is proudly rapping in Yolngu Matha language representing his Arnhem Land families. This song is an example of the real Aussie Hip-hop!

Baker Boy had a huge hit last year with his dance track 'Yolngu Style' and has bounced back with his first rap track. Teaming up with gun up 'n' coming producer Tobiahs Fakhri and getting killer chorus featuring 14 year old Kian Brownfield on the hook. This track is so infectious and good luck with trying not to play it on repeat.

'Baker Boy' the Fresh Prince of Arnhem Land!!!

Cloud 9 Lyrics
(Lyrical translation the Yolngu Matha to English !)

Intro Adlibs
Baker boy in the town
bounce with it
I'm on cloud 9
bounce with it

Verse 1
Don't be shame
you have a good brain good heart
they see you really humble don't ever change or you might crumble look after yourself just think about god
Don't turn ever turn back on god
way gela (skinned name) it's your turn to look after the sisters because I stay really far in the cold
keep your head strong
we gonna fly high like and eagle
don't wanna see no ego
don't think about it let go
just hold on to my hand and let's go
I am baker boy young man not a boy
you can't control me like a toy
im a human being just like you and me
we are family stop the jealousy
come with me now, break it down, North side of town,
Stop being the clown, be the person that chases the crown
coz at the end of the day youll be found
so never back down.

Pre chorus
You wanna be as good as me? Boy you better practise
Step back feel the power of my blackness! x2

Chorus
Cant stop me now, you cant bring me down
I'm on cloud 9, and I'm not coming down x2

Verse 2
You look each other with jealousy
like you are crazy
when ever the truth comes out
your heart is ripping out
You gotta stay strong no dout,
the bigger the crowd the bigger we are
coz the internet changes the line,
coz they they dont want us too divide
from the human race
always on the case, ended up getting chased
now we're standing in chains
Flash back being black reality hits back
your system is whack trying to change the track because
I see white people always see black people differently
police man does the same job
gotta understand this is our land
making our body sick with medicine alcohol and marijuana we are destroying each other so there you go

Pre chorus
You wanna be as good as me? Boy you better practise
Step back feel the power of my blackness! x2

Chorus
Cant stop me now, you cant bring me down
I'm on cloud 9, and I'm not coming down x4

Warmun Dancers: Jalalay Festival 2017. Culture is the compass. 19th 21 Septemberr 2017

Christobel Swan tell the Story of the Tunpa pa Remeya (The Goanna and the Perentie) in Pertame as a children's story. Recorded just outside Alice Springs on the Old South Road.

This episode was produced by ICTV, in Alice Springs.

The opening and closing animation was inspired by art work from Bindi Artists, and features a sound track written by Stephen Pigram, and performed by Raymond Dixon at the Winanjjikari Music Centre.

This project was supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation, and the Australian Government Department of Communication and Arts.

David Jones tells the story of Djómi (Mermaid Story) in the Ndjébbana language. Recorded in Maningrida, NT.

Desert Pea Media is very proud to announce our new collaboration with the Barkindji community in Wilcannia, in the heart of Western NSW on the Darling River. This production brought together Elders, community members and young people to create a conversation about country, culture and community.

This project was funded by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and NSW Health. Project managed by Wilcannia Aboriginal Lands Council and staff at Wilcannia Central School & NSW Health.

This initiative is part of an ongoing partnership between EPA and DPM to create awareness and conversation around caring for country. The project runs alongside community-focused waste management projects in Original Nations communities all over NSW.

‘Heartbeat' was created in December 2018, the result of a five-day Desert Pea Media storytelling workshop. Co-written by, and starring, an incredibly talented group of young people, community members and local Elders from the local community - with support from the DPM team and Wilcannia High School Staff.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyse 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities.

'Heartbeat' is an anthem for country - from the people of the river, the Barkindji Nation (Baaka means 'river' in Barkindji). This epic, haunting production fuses trap/ hip hop/ synth vibes to communicate a powerful call to action to protect country.

The DPM team feels deeply honored to learn, share, create and build friendships and connection with the Barkindji community in Wilcannia. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved. These are friendships and experiences that are deeply valued and respected.

This project featured the musical direction and production of acclaimed music producer Carlo Santone (Blue King Brown/Nattali Rize). We thank you brother for your artistic vision and awesome work.

Thanks to Project Manager, Jennifer Thwaites from Wilcannia LALC, Julie Ann Edmonds from Wilcannia Secondary School, and Jess Spencer from NSW Health. Also to Tash and Danyelle from the EPA.

CREDITS - Toby Finlayson - Director / Writer / DOP / Drone Pilot Josh Nicholas - Audio Engineer/ Drone Pilot / Facilitator Carlo Santone - Music Producer Grace Newell - Production Coordinator/ Photographer Jared Melrose - Co-Writer/ Co-Director /Facilitator Daniel Glossop - Sound Engineer/ Facilitator/ Camera 2 David Nicholas - Audio Mixing Darren Ziesing - Audio Mastering Mitch O'Hearn - Editor/ Grading/ Graphics Rachel Rowe - Producer / Business Manager Danyelle Carter & Tash Morton (EPA) Exec Producers.

Live recording of set played live at Bush Bands Bash at Telegraph Station, Alice Springs 2016

CAFL 2019: Country League Preliminary Final Western Aranda Vs Ltyentye Apurte

Produced by Indigenous Community Television Limited (ICTV)

© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2019


Commentary Stan Coombe & Shaun Cusack

Producer Rita Cattoni
Line Producer Andre Sawenko
Production Manager Joshua Davis

Camera: John Hodgson, Nick Bitar, Christopher Fitzpatrick
Audio Jamie Balfour & Donovan Rice
Technical Director Ben Pridmore & Ben McIntyre
Production Support Robyn Nardoo
Graphics Effy Marie Smith, Graham Wilfred Junior
Music Thomas Big Bear Saylor
Runner Natalie Wilson

Proudly Supported by
Power and Water Corporation
Batchelor Institute
Indigenous Eye Health Unit
TIO
Mercure Alice Springs

Thank you to the Alice Springs Town Council

Produced by Indigenous Community Television Limited (ICTV)

© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2019

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Bung Yarnda (Lake Tyers) has a rich history as being a fishing, feasting and camping place for Gunai clans in East Victoria. However in recent years residential development and pollution has been effecting the health of the Lake's water and ecosystem.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Mount Augustus is the largest monolith in the world, 2.5 times larger than Uluru. The Wajarri people call it Burringurrah, named after a boy who ran away from tribal initiation. Elder Charlie Snowball tells the dreaming story.

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 language, even though there are no equivalent sounds in English.

We had no written language so early settlers wrote down what they heard using their own language trying to reproduce the sounds.

In this series of short films we correct some of the language spelling of the places we all know and explain the meaning behind our stories.

Language needs a place to live, and this is a chance for us to tell our stories and our language.

Our language is sleeping, but will soon reawaken.

This video is set in Kuaka-dorla, now known as Anglesea on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. This popular tourist destination is a significant site to our Wadawurrung people as there is still evidence of where our old people harvested shellfish to feast on. Here, young Indigo is shown how to look for food.

Our Bedtime Stories 2, Episode 5: Kangkere (Blue-tongue Lizard Story)

Story by Lena Nambulla in the Kaytetye language. This episode was produced by ICTV in Stirling, NT.

Our Bedtime Stories presents stories for children in Indigenous languages, using traditional storytelling techniques together with animation, music and film. The Our Bedtime Stories series is much more than a parenting tool to get kids to sleep. The series is helping to preserve Indigenous languages across Australia.

Season two of the series has been produced by ICTV in partnership with Barkly Regional Arts, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM), Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre, and Elizabeth Langslow working with the Warruwi Community on Goulburn Island.

ICTV, showing our way.

ICTV Community News September 2 - Community News Segments_Giddy up Ilkwaatharra!_Western Arrarnta

A Welcome song and dance by young girls from Thurday Island, in the Torres Strait Islands, at the start of the Croc Festival, a festival with participants of indigenous schools in northern Queensland, held on Thursday Island in 2001.

ICTV Community News — Jahni from One Arm Point tells us about the seasons in Bardi Jawi

Five years is a long time in the lives of men. In the life of a country it’s the blink of an eye.

Balang Lewis and the four senior Wagalak, Rembarrnga and Dalabon Songmen on this landmark Australian album are all sadly passed since its original, strictly limited release in August 2007. But their songs, as captured in an inspired collaboration with some of the most respected and inventive contemporary musicians in Australia, will live forever.

Songs from Walking With Spirits is a unique document to celebrate the potency of an ancient storytelling tradition. For more than 80 years, ethnomusicologists have travelled to the Beswick/ Wugularr community east of Katherine to witness the rare gravity of First Nations Songmen singing their country. A constant and indelible presence in a changing world, these men are keepers of the codes that unlock the map of kin, country and culture.

It was the late actor, singer, musician and Beswick elder Balang T. E. Lewis (The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, The Shadow King) who brought Roy Ashley, Micky Hall, Victor Hood and Jimmy Wesan together with revered Daddy Cool guitarist Ross Hannaford (who also passed in 2016), Gurrumul bassist Michael Hohnen and select other rock/ jazz/ contemporary musicians to help these ancient songs of country resonate anew.

What at first glance might seem like an odd pairing of musical cultures, in retrospect can be seen as a unique experiment in Australian genre-bending and blending.

The results are unlike anything heard before in Indigenous or western music: a breathtaking sound and energy that brings progressive dialogue to timeless concepts in an era when the promise of First Nations recognition has returned to the forefront of national awareness.

Blekbala Mujik (Black People's Music) are an Australian rock, reggae group formed in Barunga, Northern Territory in 1986. They fused rock and reggae with a pop, dance sound and have support base for their live shows and recordings.

This is not the way you’ve know to make Cabbage Stew, it’s just my way of expressing my love for cooking and sharing it with you!

Honestly the best Cabbage Stew I’ve ever had! So good, easy to make and I’m ?% certain the mob will enjoy this one!
Ingredients:
- Rump Steak
- Bacon
- bacon hock
- onion
- garlic
- ginger
- cabbage
- beef stock powder
- bay leaves
- thyme
- salt & pepper
Optional: you can also add potatoes & carrots too but growing up it was just beef, bacon & cabbage BUT it’s up to you, whatever you desire ?
Method:
1. Brown the beef, remove then set aside.
2: Cook the bacon & onion until soft then add the garlic & ginger. Cook for a minute or two let the flavours release, add the beef back in, stir thoroughly.
3. Add the bacon hock, thyme, bay leaves, salt & pepper then top up with water. Season with beef stock powder, stir then bring to a simmer and let it go for 1 to 1.5hrs until the beef & hock are tender.
4. Add the cabbage at the end, cook for another 10-15mins until soft. Serve up with rice.
Enjoy! ?
Like it. Save it. Cook it. Share it.

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform the "Kab Kar", a traditional dance from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They wear the "dhari" headdress made with cockatoo feathers. This was the very first time these boys performed this complex traditional dance.

BBB23 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

IOP had the pleasure of going out to Kowanyama once again to write and record a music video alongside our dance project. This combined project incorporated messaging around sly grog, the importance of family connection, land and respect.

Thanks for Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council & Queensland Government for having our IOP Hip Hop Crew on the ground to work with everyone from the community.

NO SHAME | BE PROUD | RESPECT

Men and women celebrate in Numbulwar, eastern Arnhem Land, Australia, honouring a graduate from Batchelor College, an indigenous college south of Darwin, Northern Territory. They do traditional dances to celebrate the achievement of the college degree in traditional Aboriginal fashion.

Merne Mwerre is a celebration of keeping tyerrtye (body) and utnenge (spirit) strong by eating good food and connecting to Apmere (Country).

Merne Mwerre, translating to ‘Good Food’ in English, was filmed in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) at Olive Pink Botanical Gardens with a number of incredibly talented First Nations local community members including Edmond Doolan, Jarrel Williams, Monisha Martin Turner and Carol Turner. The music video portrays two First Nations children learning the power that comes from merne mwerre and how bush tucker can be found on Country.

Merne Mwerre was written and sung by first-time songwriter Edmond Doolan, an Arrernte man from Anapipe (Sandy Bore) north of Alice Springs and Arrernte leader for Children’s Ground's Men’s and Youth team. The song is sung in both Eastern/Central Arrernte and English. 

Merne Mwerre is taken from the Arrernte language children’s album Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kid’s Sing (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7H4Ki..., released in 2023. Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kid’s Sing) was an undertaking by Children’s Ground to remedy the lack of children's music available in Arrernte language. Active since 2021, the Children’s Ground music project has been supported by contributions from founding member of The Cat Empire Harry Angus, Tinpan Orange’s Emily Lubitz and artists, families and educators local to Central Australia.

The music video was produced in collaboration with, and support from, Lemon Tree Media and Productions, Bill Raby Diabetes Fellowship, Australian Government Indigenous Language and Arts Program and ABC Kids.

Health and Wellbeing is one of the five key service platforms delivered by Children’s Ground in First Nations communities. This includes health promotion and prevention, nutrition, environmental health and support to access clinical health services, social and emotional wellbeing and traditional healing. The Health and Wellbeing platform aims to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children, their families, and the broader community. This includes recognising, respecting, and privileging local cultural knowledge systems and practices, and the agency of First Nations people. Visit https://childrensground.org.au/ for more information.

Yirara News - YCTV Ep7 Term 4 2024


YiraraTV, So Good!

Mark Coles-Smith performs "Hot Is The Holiday' at NURLU in Broome.

Music Video performed by Alpurrurulam Youth for their song 'Since the Dreaming'.

Live Music Film clip from Keep Culture Festival 2013,Beagle Bay

Florence Onus speaks about her experience

A cultural film about the tradition of grinding seeds for food.

First Languages Australia short with Michael Jarrett speaking Gumbaynggirr.

This video is a part of the First Languages Australia Gambay language map project. Available to view here: https://gambay.com.au

First Languages Australia short with Harold Furber speaking Arrernte.

This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

This message is called What Do You Think its about Gods people the believers who believe Jesus in their heart but also to think like a believer in their mind.

Video clip of the song Holy Highway by Harry Barriya from Soft Sands Band.

A lyric video for our song Ardyaloon, a tribute to the community we grew up in. With our Bardi language and English.

Central Land Council Rangers ‘Looking After Country”

Over 100 Rangers gathered on Arrernte Country, travelling thousands of kilometres to Hamilton Downs Camp for their annual Central Land Council Ranger Camp. Amongst a busy training and development program rangers were guided by IHHP through a creative process of writing, recording and filming their very own Music Video called ‘Looking After Country’. This creative process provided voice for the rangers from 16 different groups across a vast geographical landscape encompassing many language groups. The rangers expressed their combined values of connection to country, culture, and lore and spoke about their obligation and responsibility to carry on the important work of their ancestors. In order to keep up with the changing landscape and environmental impacts, new Rangers are embracing new skills and employing cutting edge technology. During the camp Rangers were put through their paces. The sometimes risky and difficult tasks of being a remote ranger means they need the skills and qualifications to safely and confidently perform their jobs. From wrangling venomous snakes, driving bob cats and ATV’s, chemicals, trapping feral cats, using newly developed apps to protect threatened species (Bilby’s) through to obtain drivers license and reversing trailers.

Aboriginal Rangers are unique and leading the way in combining Indigenous ecological knowledge and modern contemporary land management practices.

Rangers groups who were represented at the 2018 Camp were:
Murnkurrumurnkurru Rangers
Northern Tanami Rangers
Warlpiri Rangers
Muru – warinyi Ankkul Rangers
Anmatyerr Rangers
Arltarpilta Inelye Rangers
Ltyentye Apurte Rangers
Anangu Luritjiku Rangers
Kaltukatjara Rangers
Tjakura Rangers
Angus Downs Anangu Rangers
Tjuwanpa Rangers
Tjuwanpa Womens Rangers
APY Rangers
Northen Territory Government Aboriginal Park Rangers
Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Aboriginal Rangers

Shout out to Dale for the drone shots!

The Central Land Council Ranger Program are proudly funded by the Australian Government through Prime Minster and Cabinet and the Indigenous Land Corporation.

CLC Rangers "Looking After Country' Lyrics

Spoken Word Intro- Elaine Peckham

Prechorus-
Looking After Country
Working on our land
Listening to elders
The futures in our hands

Chorus-
Its our life, Its our land
Its our culture, Its our future

Welcome to our country we the ranger mob
Caring for country, yeah that’s our job
Women and men wear the uniform proud (Nikita)
Women and men working sacred ground (Helma)

Our landscape is changing, we got a lot to do (Helma)
We gotta put all our knowledge and work to use (Helma)
Collecting bush medicine plants and seeds
Spray all the buffle grass, killing weeds (Helen)

Teaching our kids about the danger of fire
Teaching the right way of what is required (Lionel)
When it comes to bush tucker no need for greed
We gotta make sure people only take what we need (mike) Northe Tanami Lajamanu mob

Were we come from is exactly were we going
Bush rangers we are flowing down thered road were glowing
What our land has growing – (Kylie)

Pre chorus-
Looking After Country
Working on our land
Listening to elders
The futures in our hands

Chorus-
Its our life, Its our land
Its our culture, Its our future (Farron)

Spoken word – Francis Kelly

I tell you what its like to be a bush ranger
Looking after country working out in nature (Florence)

Work from the sunrise till the dark night

When the stars shine down on our sacred sites (Thelma)

Traditional Owners guiding us the way
Teaching us the knowledge of traditional ways (Megan)

Protecting our water holes keeping them clean (Farron)
Working with my family we a powerful team

Keeping out the horses keeping out the camels (CARL)
Protecting our species insects and animals
We got sunnies, hats, got boots and coats (DENNIS )
putting our country under the microscope

Drivin in our troupes cleaning up the land
Teaching the way so the children understand - PRESTON

Camping in swags out bush setting traps
keep an eye on the feral pussy cats

Pre chorus-
Looking After Country
Working on our land
Listening to elders
The futures in our hands
Chorus-
Its our life, Its our land
Its our culture, Its our future (Farron Santa Teresa)
Spoken Word Outro- Aunty Doreen

Bayulu Puppet Show 2019

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Leah Robinson and her Martu families love to hunt sand goannas in the western desert region of WA. The community at Parrngurr has a special place nearby – a significant waterhole where past elders first settled and lived.

Across Australia there are hundreds of different Aboriginal languages, some that are still spoken fluently across generations, and others that are endangered, and are in the process of being revived or preserved.

But what’s involved in keeping these ancient languages alive, and who are the people doing the work?

In 2016 there was a WA language conference held in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder. It was an event that brought together Aboriginal language speakers and experts from across WA and Australia, but it was also a place for people to come together and celebrate culture and share their vision for the future.

This video captures the language and the stories of some of those people who attended the annual gathering, and it was produced with help from First Languages Australia.

Produced by Nathan Morris

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

In our local language of Kunwinjku, we say "karribolknahnan kunred". It means caring for country.

Looking after our country near Gunbalanya, in Western Arnhem Land, is a big part of our job as rangers.

Here is a little story about some of what we do. In particular, it's about the spot called Red Lily, right on the northwestern edge of the Arnhem Land escarpment. We'll teach you some more Kunwinjku words along the way.

This video was made as part of an ABC Open Top End workshop for the ABC Open project Mother Tongue.

A combined group of artists from the Injalak Arts Centre and Njanjma Rangers got together to tell stories and practice with media.

Produced by Manbiyarra Grant Nayinggul.

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

INFRACTIONS connects stories of Queensland 'unconventional' gas approvals on Gooreng Gooreng country to global shale gas plans potentially affecting 50% of the Northern Territory. The film was made following the lifting of the moratorium on fracking in NT. It features Dimakarri ‘Ray’ Dixon (Mudburra), Jack Green (Garawa, Gudanji), Gadrian Hoosan (Garrwa, Yanyuwa), Robert O’Keefe (Wambaya), Juliri Ingra and Neola Savage (Gooreng Gooreng), Que Kenny (Western Arrarnta), Cassie Williams (Western Arrarnta), the Sandridge Band, and Professor Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk Bunganditj) who was involved in drafting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The non-Indigenous director Rachel O'Reilly works in Meanjin (Brisbane) and Berlin and grew up on Gooreng Gooreng country in Yallarm/Gladstone. Commissioned by KW Berlin, Germany.

The biggest celebration of Indigenous music in Central Australia.

This year's lineup features Docker River Band, Mr J Whiskey Trio, Wildfire Manwurrk Band, Eastern Arrernte Band, DESERT 7 HIPHOP, Jonathan Doolan and the Areyonga Band, Karrku Reggae Band, Moonlight Reggae, plus Divas: Ray Ray, Kirra Voller and Desmo Lewis

Yajilarra Concert 2021

Munumburra 1998: Kimberley Gold - Caught In Trap

Download the free 'Good Tucker' app here: http://thumbsup.org.au/good-tucker/
The Thumbs Up! Team recently visited the Barkly region facilitating music workshops, recording local musicians, raising awareness about trachoma and promoting the launch of the new 'Good Tucker' app in several remote communities. This song/video was recorded and filmed in the community of kulamindini (Elliot) with the Thumbs Up! team including facilitator Monkey Marc. This tracks features MC Ellio, MC JR and local youth who are introducing us to the 'Good Tucker' app.

Men and boys from Injinoo, a community at the top of Cape York in Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances during the Giringun Festival in Cardwell. They perform the Scrub Turkey Dance (making a nest to lay her eggs); after that they march off.

EXCLUSIVE: former NAAJA employee reveals real reasons behind lawyer shortage crisis (English)

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Dhupuma Barker
Laynhapuy Homelands
Gunyangara, Ski Beach
Garrthalala
Indigenous Outreach Projects
IOP Hip Hop Crew

NO SHAME | BE PROUD | RESPECT

During 2020/21 - independent researcher Natalie Moxham from Leanganook Yarn conducted an Evaluation Process of Desert Pea Media's 'Break It Down - Community Conversations Around Mental Health' Project in North Coast NSW, in partnership with Healthy North Coast.

'Break It Down’ is an Original Nations youth mental health literacy program, focusing on social and emotional wellbeing, and drug and alcohol prevention. The project is a connected and meaningful collaborative engagement, creative workshop, and content development activities that brings together DPM, local Original Nations communities, Aboriginal Health Services, representatives of health agencies, as well as education and other relevant community stakeholders.

This film explores the findings of a detailed Evaluation Report that came from consultations with communities that had participated in the "Break It Down" project. In this film we hear directly from young people, community members, stakeholders, teachers and the Deputy Director of Healthy North Coast - Marni Tuala.

For more information on Desert Pea Media's work, please go to: https://www.desertpeamedia.com/

ICTV Christmas Closure 2024/2025

Live Music Film clip from Keep Culture Festival 2013,Beagle Bay

Music video

Peter Brandy performing at the Nguyuru Waaringarrem Music Festival Halls Creek 2013.

Tjuntjuntjara community is located 660 km east of Kalgoorlie, in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia - it is considered one of the most remote communities in Australia.

The local people are known as 'the Spinifex People', who moved from their homelands (which range across the WA/ SA border) to Cundelee (160km east of Kalgoorlie) during British atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960's - returning to their traditional country around Tjuntjuntjara in the mid 1980's.

'Tjuntjuntjara Tjukurpa was written, recorded and filmed over five days in partnership with Tjuntjuntjara Remote Community School in October 2013. The process involved close consultation with local elders, school students, staff and local community members.

'Tjuntjuntjara Tjukurpa is Pitjantjatjara language for 'Tjuntjuntjara Story' and celebrates the continuation and vitality of the Pitjantjatjara culture across the region, with references to the local Emu Dreaming story.
The story is also a celebration of local young people, and the importance of school attendance, health, and everybody contributing to a strong and healthy community.

Special thanks to Charlie and Tilly Klein, and the Tjuntjuntjara Remote School.

We pay our respects to the Pitjantjatjara people - traditional owners of the country from which this story was told.

*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that photographs/videos may contain images of deceased persons, which may cause sadness or distress.

A documentary that explores the beautiful locations around One Arm Point with an environmental focus. With interviews with the Bardi Jawi Rangers, the film explores how the rangers work with the community to maintain these areas and engage with the community.

Short videos about Karnte op shop by Tangentyere Stories media team.

First Languages Australia short with Gabreil Creek, speaking Kaantju.

This video is a part of the First Languages Australia Gambay language map project. Available to view here: https://gambay.com.au

A Woorie Christmas Song was written and performed by Shontara Barry and Neveetta Huxley-Wilkie and filmed by younger sister Guyel-ma.

The girls wrote and recorded this song in Mimosa Studio Project's last hour of operation for this year!

First Languages Australia short with Fay Stewart-Muir about learning Boonwurrung language.

Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu.

This series consists of four short films in which Warlpiri women sing, dance and tell the stories of different ancestral beings who travel across Warlpiri country. Each part contains footage of these women singing, painting their bodies with red and white ochre and performing the accompanying dances. The first part presents the Minamina yawulyu and tells of group of ancestral women as they emerge from Minamina, in the far west of Warlpiri country and begin their journey eastwards. Part 2 presents the songs and stories of the Watiyawarnu ancestors from Ngurlulirri-nyinanya, to the north-west of Yuendumu, telling of their travels as they search for varieties of acacia seed, grinding them and making seed cakes along the way. Part 3 presents the famous songs and story of the two Jangalas from Warlukurlangu whose evil blue-tongue lizard father lights a raging bush fire, forcing them to run away southwards out of their country before they return home, weak and exhausted. And finally, part 4 presents the songs and stories of the Ngapa ‘Rain’ Dreaming that travels westwards across the country to the north of Yuendumu. Warlpiri women from Yuendumu have presented these yawulyu so that the songs and their associated knowledge can be remembered and performed by future generations of Warlpiri women. These films appear on a DVD which comes as an accompanying insert in the book ‘Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women’s songs from Yuendumu’ (Batchelor Institute Press, 2017).

This is the Yinhawangka Native Title Determination video which took place on 18th July, 2017 at Rocklea Station.

Rocklea Station means so much to Yinhawangka people as it was where our elders grew up.

We hired my cousin Tyson Mowarin from Weeriana Street Media to document this event for us.

It means a lot to us all. It was 20+ years in the making and loved ones who started this process were no longer with us to see this day.

This is for them. This is for all Yinhawangka.

Kaurna kids and friends teach us the Heads, Shoulders , Knees & Toes song.This video was created by Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

The Thumbs Up team recorded a great song with the students from Bulman School, near Katherine NT as part of the NT Music School's 'Music 4 Life' program.

Bidyadanga band Seaside Drifters perform live at Saltwater Festival 2018 in Broome.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

The Kuckles: Bran Nue Dae

The Watarrka Foundation is proud to present the annual Sports and Storytelling Festival. The festival is held at the Watarrka School in Lilla near Kings Canyon.

This year over 40 children from Lilla, Finke School in Finke River, and the Utju Areyonga School came together to participate in sporting activities, traditional cultural activities and drama / performance workshops.

An important outcome of the festival is to help the children from these regional communities connect with each other and get excited about education.

The main organisations powering this year’s event are Dentons, Westpac, Poetry in Action, The Watarrka Foundation, Remote Tours and NT AFL.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Seaside Drifters - Bidyadanga Wipeout

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Docker River Band - Ngura Kutjupa Kanpinya

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Mambali Band-Garrada

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Rising Wind Band-Karnta Kurlu

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Kabi Kabi man Kerry Neill shares the Aboriginal Dreaming story behind popular tourist destinations on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. In this story, we discover how the black swan helped Maroochydore gain its name.

The 'This Place' project invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

The Gold Coast hinterland is a great vantage point to take in the east and west, but it also is the setting for a Yugambeh story. The Wanungara story gives life to the landscape, speaking to us of the formation of this country’s magnificent waterfalls, lush rainforests, ancient trees and natural beauty through the spirits of the landscape. The story explores the deeper nuances of respecting Elders, valuing family and being truthful and honest. Under the guidance of Senior Yugambeh Elder Patricia O’Connor, Paula Nihôt project officer with the Yugambeh Museum, tells the story of the Queen and her daughters who created this place.

The 'This Place' project invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Wangal people know Sydney as the place of eel Dreaming and before it was known as the Parramatta River, the waterway was called Burramattagal. From trees that protected Aboriginal children from snakes to the first contact with Europeans, join Uncle Jimmy Smith in a tour of Sydney's significant parks and waterways.

The 'This Place' project invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

The thrombolites in Lake Clifton in WA are thought to be one of the first life forms on earth. George and Frank share how for the Noongar people, the thrombolites hold a significant place in their Dreaming stories and explain how the local waterways were created.

The Tennant Creek Primary School feature a language class, where songs are taught to the students in Warumungu, the local indigenous language of Tennant Creek. The songs were taught by local Warumungu elders of Tennant Creek.

Thank you the the Tennant Creek Primary School for sharing these lovely songs.

Credits:

Camera & Edit:
William Thomson

Recording: Jeffrey McLaughlin

Filmed at: Tennant Creek Primary School

Marisa Maher is an emerging curator and assistant Manager of Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, based in Mparntwe Alice Springs and supports the “Hermannsburg School” style of watercolour artists who continue to paint in the tradition of their grandfather and relative, the famous great Australian Aboriginal Artist of the 20th Century Albert Namatjira. Marisa Maher is without doubt one of the country’s most exciting emerging curators this is her story.

Saltlake Band is from the remote community of Umbakumba on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory Australia, this song is called sitting on the beach and was filmed using two I phones, the band has played many festivals including Yuban in Sydney to a crowd of 36,000 also Island Vibe festival on Stradbroke Island and many more,.They are a great band with family ties and give exciting music mixed with modern instruments and ancient instruments and culture in dance and language please enjoy this music clip.

Bush Bands Bash: Karrku Reggae Band Full Set

In 2018, Ku Arts coordinated two carving camps on both Nukunu and Adnyamathanha country. The camps included language workshops supported by the Mobile Language Team, and the study of objects made by direct ancestors of the Adnyamathanha and Nukunu participants in partnership with South Australian Museum.

Through making tools and studying language, Adnyamathanha and Nukunu men were able to deepen their understanding of the way their ancestors made life and interacted with the environment. Through sharing skills and knowledge, the men of the neighbouring language groups have not only produced important artistic works but have deepened friendships that will help to keep Adnyamathanha and Nukunu carving practice strong.

Yinhawangka, Yindjibarndi man from the Wakathuni Community Shaka Cook yarns about his work as an Actor on Hamilton, playing the principal roles of Hercules Mulligan and James Madison.
Shaka spoke with his Nyirdeygu, Ngaarda Media's Brandon Cook about his reaction to being cast on the Australian production Hamilton, the process after being cast, and briefly discusses the correlation he sees in the Play that relates to Australia and the first nation people.

Boys from Doomadgee, an Aboriginal community in north-western Queensland perform traditional dancing, with the girls dancing in the background, at the yearly Malandarri Festival in Borroloola, Northern Territory, 2018.

Every late afternoon during the weeks the "Mardayin" or "Ngarrag" ceremony takes place, the men paint up and perform various totem dances in their respective moiety groups (Dua and Yirritja) Some men have ceremonial "power bags" in their mouths. The ceremonies start with the moiety leaders climbing onto a ceremonial forked pole, called "Jirawara" and gives the Mardayin calls naming the ceremonial places connected with the Dreaming; the men standing around it respond with yells. It ends for both moieties with a fast dance by the women and girls. In Numbulwar, an Aboriginal community, Northern Territory, Australia.

A unique four-day singing camp in the heart of Australia, Big Sing in the Desert is much loved by all who attend, providing an opportunity for musical and cultural sharing through song, dance, food, art, conversation and community in Eastern Arrernte country at Ross River in the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory.

Singers attended from every State in Australia, with 40 singers from Central Desert Aboriginal communities, including Mutitjulu, Docker River, Utju, Ntaria, Titjikala and Mbantua. Choirs included the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir, Singcronicity Youth Choir, Ngarrgan-Mirriiyn and Djinama Yilaga.

This event is led by Big Sing Director Rachel Hore with tutor Morris Stuart.

In April 2023 we celebrated our 10th anniversary, This special event included the first ever singing of a new song by Rachel Hore 'Beautiful Country', a songwriting workshop with Desert Divas Casii Williams and Genise Williams, and a bush medicine workshop.

Learn more about Big Sing in the Desert, the Big Sing Community and Big Sing Inc here https://bigsingcommunity.com

#bigsingcommunity #bigsinginthedesert #rachelhore #centralaustralianaboriginalwomenschoir #morrisstuart #casiiwilliams #culturalsharing #singing #choir #choral #centralaustralia #rossriverresort

Kowanyama the land of many waters

Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council
Kowanyama State School
Indigenous Outreach Projects
Queensland Government
IOP Hip Hop Crew

NO SHAME | BE PROUD | RESPECT

#iophiphop #kowanyama #qld

LYRICS

VERSE 1
Kowie land the place of many waters
Culture strong cause our elders taught us
Blessed on the land by the elders
Strong spirit strong culture all around us
All three tribes working together
Keeping it real like it’s no big deal
Go to car crossing we love hunting
Feed our family that’s the main thing
Too much drinking too much punching
Makes me sad and got me thinking
This sly grog hurting us kids
Keep it out, think about what you did
Corella calling early in the morning
Laying in your bed don’t be boring
Come to school make my mind grow
Chill with friend go with the flow

PRE CHORUS
No sly grog in our home
Only want peace leave it alone No sly grog and that’s that Kowanyama dat-to-dat

No sly grog in our home
Only want peace leave it alone No sly grog and that’s that
If you like this flow let me hear you clap-clap

CHORUS
Proud of culture, proud of land Blessed on country hand in hand

Proud of culture, proud of land Blessed on country hand in hand

VERSE 2
Country and culture here to make a stand
Proud and deadly this is our land.
Sorry business getting us down
Be there for each other gather round
Grog affects you in a bad way
Be kind to each other watch what you say
Instead take your family out to country
Things will work just wait and see
Pig, turtle, fish, scrub turkey
Duck, flying fox, and wallaby
Kokoberra swamp, sandy creek
Duck holes, three ways, landing, corochee
Kokoberra Kunjen people are so friendly
Kokomenjema people are too deadly
We got everything just come and see
Were proud of this land come walk with me

PRE CHORUS

CHORUS

It’s not OK if someone shares – or says they will share – a nude or sexual image or video of you, without your consent. This is known as image-based abuse or revenge porn.

If this happens to you, eSafety can help.

Find online safety advice and support in multiple languages for First Nations people, including resources about how to be safe online and what to do if things go wrong: https://www.esafety.gov.au/first-nations

It’s not OK if someone shares – or says they will share – a nude or sexual image or video of you, without your consent. This is known as image-based abuse or revenge porn.

If this happens to you, eSafety can help.

Find online safety advice and support in multiple languages for First Nations people, including resources about how to be safe online and what to do if things go wrong: https://www.esafety.gov.au/first-nations

Three boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform the "Maumatang" war dance from Boigu Island, in the Top Western Torres Strait Islands, just south of Papua New Guinea; at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010.

In this short film shot in Tjukurla Community, Nola Bennett talks in Ngaanyatjarra about how people used to go hunting in the area

Pre-Promo: 12 Days of Xmas Special Programming

Music video clip performed by the children of Nauiyu for their song 'Feel the Flow'.

Bessie Ejai

WHATS UP WINANJJIKARI: EP 4 - Learn some Indigneous Wambaya and Gurindji languague from Northern Territory, Australia with Barkly Boys Drummer Reggie O'Riley. Filmed on the Barkly Tablelands during the Winanjjikari All-Stars 2015 NT Tour.

The Black Image Band performing live at the UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival on 1 August, 2015 at Fogarty Park, Cairns.

This song is an original called "The deadly brothers and sisters".

UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival is UMI Arts' annual signature event that showcases Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples with connection to Far North Queensland.

For more information visit www.umiarts.com.au

An insight in to the Warburton Community Playgroup. An essential service being provided for newborns - 4 year olds aimed at giving parents the responsibility for getting their children ready for school.

This short animation by Jason Phillipus was produced in term four of the italk library animation project, produced by trainees in the iTalk medai production program, held in Alice Springs.

The trainees in this term included:
Abraham Phillipus, Jason Phillipus, Arron Tennyson, Amos Marshall, Glorianne Lewis, Caitlyn Munnich, William Patrick, Craig Brown, Tyson Harris, Albert Neal, Alvin Anderson, Maxie Armstrong.

This project is a partnership between Department of Correctional Services and iTalk Library.

For more information visit italkstudios.com.au

Blackstone Band Full Set from the Battle of the Bands, from the NG Lands Festival held in Wingellina, 2016.

Captured by the NG Media Live events team.

Right Wrongs: 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.

On May 27, 1967, Australians voted in a referendum to change how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were referred to in the Constitution. Explore these personal stories, opinions and historical recordings of what happened.

How far have we come since 1967?

Hosts: Bridget Boney and Bridget Brennan

Right Wrongs was created and produced by the ABC, NSLA and AIATSIS.

More stories: http://www.abc.net.au/rightwrongs/

Bush Bands Bash 2017: Moon Band -Tjukurpa Winki.

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

YABURARA MASSACRE IN THE PILBARA 150 YEARS ON Murujuga National Park lies within the Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago and is home to one of the worlds most ancient rock engravings and is also the place where a massacre of the Yaburara people took place in 1868. Yaburara descendants organised the first remembrance day in 2013 and this year marks 150 years since this atrocity took place. Actor, Ernie Dingo was brought on board this year to highlight the history of the Flying Foam Massacre and the Remembrance day will be held on the 15th of April at the Burrup massacre site at 10am. The story has been passed down by ancestors of the survivors and transcripts of early pioneers who took part in murdering over one hundred men, women and children. Audrey Cosmos is the Project Officer from the Yaburara and Mardudhunera Aboriginal Corporation and would like people to research what happened and make their own mind up about how they feel and would like to see you there on the day.

Zero-Point discovers there is more to the super drug E.Y.C.E. than meets the eye while the post-human terrorist Samson re-appears at Canberra to settle a score...

ZERO-POINT: SEASON ZERO introduces to the world the first Indigenous hero; packed full of suped up terrorists, over-regulated superheroes, addictive “super-drugs”, Government lies and action-packed fight scenes. Filled with political subtext mirroring many contemporary social issues including the on-going fight for sovereignty of our First Nations people and the fallout of the top secret Maralinga Nuclear tests.

Based on the original comic book by writer/director Jonathon Saunders, ZERO-POINT features an all-star cast with award-winning actor MARK COLE-SMITH (The Drover’s Wife, Last Cab to Darwin, Picnic at Hanging Rock); as ZERO-POINT; STEPHEN OLIVER (Black Comedy) as the post-human terrorist SAMSON; and EBONY MCGUIRE (Yirra-Yaakin & Ilbijerri Theatre Company) as WING COMMANDER.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Dodge City Boyz: full set

Jagala Jagala performance by Red Flag Dancers at 2016 Numburindi Festival, Numbulwar.

Numburindi Festival is a celebration of arts, culture and dance in the south-east Arnhem Land community of Numbulwar, presented annually by Artback NT and the community of Numbulwar.

Filming and editing by Numbulwar Culture and Media

Alknge Irlpe: Sadadeen School Song

Starring
Tanika McCormack, Summer Rose Nicho, Mercade Strawbridge,
Lyesha Tilmouth, Samantha Lama, Marlene Ebatarinja,
Qyra Gardiner, Simon Gautam, & Leilani Biliew.

A Kuarna Language short-short course from Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

Liz Kelly-Hunter teaches 22 words of Nyul Nyul Language spoken on the Dampier Peninsula.

Nyamal Traditional Owners from Western Australia’s Pilbara region had their native title determination officially recognised at Shaw River on Tuesday about 100km east of Port Hedland.

The Nyamal people have been recognised as the traditional owners of 28,000 square kilometres of land in the Pilbara, from Marble Bar extending north towards Port Hedland.

The first claim for native title was submitted by Nyamal Traditional Owners in 1994 – two years after the ground-breaking Eddie Mabo case was won in the High Court.

Nyamal elder Doris Eaton talked with us and shared her thoughts, emotions and aspirations after the native title win!

Yarrard: We or us.

Liz Kelly-Hunter teaches 22 words of Nyul Nyul Language spoken on the Dampier Peninsula.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Little Wave Rock is a gathering place that harbours the history and secrets of Gamilaraay ancestors. Gamilaraay woman Loren Ryan discusses her connection to Country and the importance of paying respects at this sacred place.

Ḏawurr Boarding is a boarding school in North East Arnhem Land, that caters for 40 Aboriginal students. Ḏawurr Boarders come from many different communities within North East Arnhem, West Arnhem, Darwin and further to study at Nhulunbuy High School.

This song was written and recorded during the 2016 Healthy Living Youth Festival in Nauiyu Community from June 3 to 6. This latest instalment to the growing Red Dust library was brought to life through the popular desire for a second instalment to the unofficial local anthem recorded in 2014, "Nauiyu Nambiyu".

A big shout out to everyone that got involved with the festival and who helped make this song and music video so wonderful, and to Miriam Rose for laying down the chorus to the track!

Bush Bands Bash 2021: Jonathan Doolan & The Areyonga Band Full Set

Munumburra 1998: Young Guns - Out The Door

Shae Lui's Cooking Adventures
Not a chef. I don’t know much, just wing it a lot and share recipes for you to try out too!
Shae cooks Chicken Vermicelli

ICTV Community News Segs - The reality of living on country with a disability (Western Arrarnta) 5 August 2022

Blekbala Mujik (Black People's Music) are an Australian rock, reggae group formed in Barunga, Northern Territory in 1986. They fused rock and reggae with a pop, dance sound and have support base for their live shows and recordings.

Yipirinya School hosted an empowering Red Dust Healthy Living Program that focused on the themes of safety, security, and trust. The program aimed to provide a safe space for students to express themselves and develop a sense of identity, confidence, and self-esteem. The highlight of the week was the creation of a fantastic music video called 'Be Brave', which was a collaborative effort that engaged the entire school community.
The lyrics of the song were developed with the help of Aunties from community and incorporated
the four languages taught at the school - Central Arrernte, Western Aranda, Luritja, and Warlpiri.
This represented the school's two-way learning purpose and vision. The team brainstormed what school, culture, and family mean and how invaluable it is to be connected to your identity and
culture. The students led the way, creating their own dance moves and raps, that have been
showcased throughout the music video.
Much of the music video was shot on Country, with groups venturing out to locations such as the
sand dunes, football oval, and Anzac Hill. The rap element of the music video was a focus area in the
planning process, and many of the students enjoyed workshopping the story together. To make the
project even more impactful, the teams from Jesuit Social Services and Artful Dodgers collaborated
on its development and execution, leveraging a wider range of skill sets and allowing more students
to benefit from one-on-one engagement.
The music track played at the Ghost Gums festival and the music video was proudly shown at the
Yipirinya school family day. Kirra Voller, Yipirinya music teacher, expressed her joy in having a whole
team of creative minds to collaborate with to pull it off. She says, “There’s not a day that goes by
since recording it that a student doesn’t sing, ‘be brave, be strong, be wonderful’, somewhere in the
schoolyard”.
The week in Yipirinya was a beautiful and inspiring one, and the music video was a testament to the
creativity and collaborative spirit of the school community. The themes of safety, security, and trust
were explored in a meaningful way, and the students were empowered to express themselves and
develop essential skills for personal and academic success.

Credits/Contributors
Yipirinya School
Artful Dodgers Studios
Alice Springs Meeting Place Foundation
Australian Federal Government
Northern Territory Government

Why are people in Ali Curung so worried about their water supply? (English)

Iwenhe Arrateme Ingwele is a song about what we see in our environment at different times of the day: the morning, daytime, the evening and at night. It teaches children about the rhythms and patterns of Arrernte country, sharing important cultural and ecological knowledge, connecting them to the land and reminding them to notice their surroundings. And to look out for the Pangkerlange!

Aboriginal students from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances during the Townsville Cultural Fest. They enter the main stage with a sweeping dance, followed by a fast "Worrama" dance. The next dance is the "Cassowary Dance" about the large flightless bird from this region; then the "Mosquito dance" about trying to keep mosquitoes away while hunting in the mangroves, followed by the fast "Three Beat" Shake-a-leg dance. After that they move off the stage.

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They are accompanied by drumming and singing.

Men and women celebrate in Numbulwar, eastern Arnhem Land, honouring a graduate from Batchelor College, an indigenous college south of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. They escort her into the place where she receives her certificate from the director and celebrate the achievement of the college degree in traditional Aboriginal fashion.

ICTV Community News Episode 5 - 7th June 2024 (English)

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Yirara News - YCTV Ep3 Term 4 2024

In today's YiraraTV we played in a Volleyball Tournament in town, explored our classrooms & worked on our Western Arrarnta language skills.

Presenters:- Greg Minniecon from Rockhole, Duwayne Murrungun and Lelan Nuggett from Borroloola Communitys.

YiraraTV, So Good!

ICTV Community News November 2024 - CBA Awards (English) - Ngaarda Media

Students from Ramingining sing a song about healthy eating in Ramingining.

Short film about young girls who go out bush looking for Honey Ants.

The hook is the Wiradjuri word for 'welcome' in the Condobolin area Wiradjuri language group in Central Western NSW.

'Wiradjuri Welcome' is a track created by the team at Desert Pea Media, alongside Indigenous artists Roy Peterson (Condobolin) and Bruce Carr (Wellington) as part of a Desert Pea Media mentoring program with local young people.

Men of Kalkarindji show how to prepare kangaroo tail on the fire.

Performing dance.

Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight) performs her Song of Lament at the launch of Heroes & Laments at the Ellington Jazz club in Perth, April 2015.

Faye Clayton shares her story

Traditional dance and song by the Masig Kai-lag Dancers, from Yorke Island in the Torres Strait.

Performed at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns QLD 2016

First Languages Australia short with Gail Harradine speaking Wergaia.

This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

Living with the legacy of British Nuclear testing.

In the 1950’s and 1960’s the Australian government authorised British Nuclear testing at Emu Field and Maralinga in Outback South Australia.
We journey with Antikirrinya Elder, Ingkama Bobby Brown to his homelands in outback South Australia where he explains the legacy of living with British Nuclear testing - how he witnessed the first tests on the Australian mainland at Emu Field (1953) and experienced the devastating affects of radioactive fallout on his family, people and country.
5min short from the award winning documentary King's Seal.

British Nuclear testing was a breach of the King's Letters Patent, the founding document that established the state of South Australia (1836), which granted Aboriginal people the legal right to occupy and enjoy their land for always.

Co-Producers / Co-Directors : Quenten Agius, Kim Mavromatis.
Associate Producer : Stephen Goldsmith
Co-Writers : Alexis West, Stephen Goldsmith, Quenten Agius, Kim Mavromatis.
Sound Mix : Scott Illingworth (Best FX).
NITV Commissioning Editor : Pauline Clague.
Produced by MAV Media.
Produced in Association with NITV (National Indigenous TV Australia).
Developed and Produced with the Assistance of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC).
Principal Investor Screen Australia.
Copyright 2014.
Complete credit list : kingsseal.com.au

Nominated Best Short Film - 2016 Environmental Film Festival, Australia (Melbourne).
Winner Best Film - 2015 Footprints Eco Film Festival (Sydney).
Nominated Best Documentary, 2015 South Australian Screen Awards.

This video talks about a Raypirri (Discipline) shelter erected at Ramingining near the school which will allow elders to convey traditional knowledge to children alongside their mainstream schooling. Build by ALPA CDP and supported by ALPA RSAS and the Ramingining School.

Watch the film ‘Our Mother Tongue: Wiradjuri’ and check out some behind-the-scenes photos of the filming. This film was made as part of an Indigenous languages project for ABC Local Radio and Multiplatform that is being piloted in partnership with First Languages Australia.

ABC Mother Tongue - Sharing Australia's First Languages.

First Languages Australia short with Kynan Richards speaking about the Barngarla language.

First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

In this series Jack Buckskin outlines some basic words and phrases of the Kaurna language. The Kaurna are the original inhabitants of the Adelaide plains area in South Australia.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

'Outback by the Sea' was written, recorded and filmed with the kids from Normanton and Karumba in the Carpentaria Shire of North Queensland. The Gulf country is all at once rugged and beautiful, from sunsets over the ocean to wetlands and cattle country. Thanks to all the kids who took part and showed us around. Also thanks to the Carpentaria Shire Council, RADF, Normanton State School, Gulf Christian College and Karumba State School.

ICTV Contributor Profiles Project: Thomas Harold "Tom Tom" Saylor.

ICTV Contributor Profiles project features the work of outstanding Indigenous producers in remote Australia, celebrating their hard work and contribution to community television.

This Episode stars Thomas Harold "Tom Tom" Saylor, a long time contributor to ICTV, and collaborator on many ICTV projects. Tom Tom is from Alice Springs, NT.

This project is proudly supported by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.

Mother Tongue series: A conversation in Bundjalung.

Watch the video, test your language skills and learn a bit of the mother tongue of some of the NSW north coast Aboriginal peoples.

Check how you went. Here's the translation.

Bianca: Hello
Dean: Hello
Bianca: Are you well?
Dean: I am good. Are you well?
Bianca: No, cold
Dean: Yes cold. What's your name?
Bianca: My name Bianca.
Dean: My name Dean. Where you from?
Bianca: Where from? Grafton
Dean: Grafton! Good very, I am from Grafton
Bianca: I am Bundjalung woman
Dean: Bundjalung!? I am Bundjalung man
Bianca: Yes brother!
Dean: Sister! Good very!
Bianca: Good very! I am mother, two children, boy and baby girl
Dean: Yes, I am father, two children, boy and girl
Bianca: Yes, good very
Dean: Yes, I am going now
Bianca: See you later
Dean: See you later

Bianca and Dean are from the ‪Wahlabul‬ clan of the ‪Clarence River valley‬.

Their vision is to become fluent speakers in their mother tongue and teach the next generation to be proud to practice their culture and speak their language.

Produced by Catherine Marciniak

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

Our bio-cultural project has teamed up with @statelibraryqld for SPOKEN, an exhibition promoting the importance of preserving some of the few remaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages still alive in Queensland.

'Wik.Thayanam.Thawan’ is a short documentary featuring Elders of Aurukun speaking in Wik-Mungkan, the LAST strong Aboriginal language spoken on Queensland's mainland as a first language!!

Mainriver - Yiyili

A few people speak the Indigenous Djabuguy language fluently. Michael Quinn, an Englishman, is one of them.

It was 1986 when he arrived in the Far North Queensland town of Kuranda with his young family. Before this he had been living in Sydney where he studied a four year Anthropology degree at the University of Sydney, while teaching English.

He had never met an Aboriginal bama (person) but wanted to study the mythology of the land he was going to build a house on. When he approached Lalfie Thompson, the last initiated man of the Djabuguy tribe, to ask permission to do this he told him, ""not until you learn our language.""

So began Michael's 28 year journey of learning and teaching the Djabuguy language. In this time he has had the help of linguists who had studied the language in the past - Ken Hale, Bob Dixon, Helena Cassells and Elizabeth Patz - and elders like Nyuwarri Queen of the Djabuganydji, Wurrmbul Gilpin Banning and Warren Brim.

Elder, Rhonda Brim, Rhonda Duffin and Chairman of the Djabuguy Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, Gerald Hobbler, have also been some of his main supporters.

When Michael arrived there were still a handful of elders who spoke Djabuguy. It was Wanyarra, Roy Banning, who is the last person Michael knows to have grown up speaking Djabuguy as his first language, who was his main language teacher. Michael says he couldn't have got very far without Roy. For many years they worked together in local schools and at the Tjapukai Theatre in Kuranda and Tjapukai Aboriginal Theme Park outside Cairns.

One of the reasons the Djabuguy language has come so close to extinction is the movement of many Djabuguy children to the Mona Mona Adventist Church Mission between 1913 and 1963 – under Aboriginal protection policies of the day.

“The government were telling us what we can and can’t do,” says Gerald Hobbler, who spent some of his childhood on the mission. “We always thought we were under the act.”

The rules were strict and English was the only language tolerated. Mother tongue was no longer spoken.

Today, one Indigenous language disappears every two weeks. Estimates suggest 100 years from now there will possibly be no indigenous languages left on the planet.

Nearly thirty years after first approaching Lalfie Thompson, Michael is seen as a custodian of the language – a language that once covered an area from the coast in Cairns to the highlands, back to Mareeba and up to Port Douglas.

He is now a teacher of the language he has dedicated much of his life to learning and spends two afternoons a week at Kuranda District State College teaching Djabuguy to local children.

What does Michael hopes comes from all this? That people will be able to “Buwal bugan ngirrma bulmba-barra – speak the language of the country”.

"I am grateful to the Bama, the people of this place, who have shown me friendship and encouraged my work," says Michael.

Produced by Gemma Deavin

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

John Waterton teaches the Bidyara and Gungabula languages in the central Queensland town of Woorabinda.

The languages were thought to be lost for many years, but through the hard work of people like John, they are being reintroduced back into the community.

Here, John takes us through the parts of the face.

Produced by John Waterton, Felicity Doolan, Annalee Pope, Jewel Pope, Nicky Pope and Lisa Clarke

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

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.

By Moree Aboriginal Art Students
Producer: Elizabeth Munro
Producer: Harold J French
Producer: Lyiata Ballangarry
Producer: Wayne Weatherall
Producer: Kevin Cutmore
Gomeroi Language Advisor: Alfie Priestly

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

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 research for the Yorta Yorta Language Heritage Book (dictionary).

My mother and my children speak some of the language. Some years after the dictionary was published there was a demand to start language classes for community members to revive the language. We did a pilot study and applied for funding to do a 12 month project, funded by the Office of the Arts. This process not only invited me to learn my language but it also developed an interest in the intensity of cultural development attached to language renewal. Unless you have someone to talk to in your language, the language will stagnate, so teaching other people to speak Yorta Yorta has had numerous benefits.

Over the years many models of teaching have been tried and failed or just stopped, but this language development has been built to be sustainable, through the process of involving community according to their availability. We constructed a model that is based on small groups of five people per one hour session.

Throughout this time we have had a number of people do the language sessions.

One participant has published a Yorta Yorta children’s book. The local library currently has an Indigenous writing awards with an Indigenous language section in it for participants to enter language articles.

We are currently working on expressing language through audio visual media and are planning to have an exhibition in September of this year. The revival of language has been very instrumental in developing the confidence and self-esteem of the Aboriginal community in this area. There is also a very keen interest from the mainstream sector in Indigenous language development.

Produced by Sharon Atkinson and ABC Open Albury-Wodonga

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

Our Bedtime Stories 2, Episode 9: Pantirti Tjukurrpa (The Seven Sisters)

Story by Laurel Cooper in the Ngaanyatjarra language. This episode was produced by Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre in Kalgoorlie, WA.

Our Bedtime Stories presents stories for children in Indigenous languages, using traditional storytelling techniques together with animation, music and film. The Our Bedtime Stories series is much more than a parenting tool to get kids to sleep. The series is helping to preserve Indigenous languages across Australia.

Season two of the series has been produced by ICTV in partnership with Barkly Regional Arts, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM), Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre, and Elizabeth Langslow working with the Warruwi Community on Goulburn Island.

ICTV, showing our way.

Hear from Jabaan King of Yarrabah - Vincent Schrieber, Traditional Owner – Nathan Schrieber, Yarrabah Mayor – Ross Andrews and cultural advisor - Alfred Gray about cultural education, language and community in Yarrabah.

Turtle Muster - Making Clay Turtles with Dylan Charles.

Turtle Tile Making Kits are available online and Kaiela Arts can post them to you.
https://kaielaarts.org.au/product/turtle-tile-making-kit/

Established in 2006, Kaiela Arts is an Aboriginal art centre located in Shepparton. We provide an important space for artists and the community to connect with art and culture. Our work drives important outcomes for both our artists and the broader Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community.
With a rich Indigenous heritage, the Kaiela Dungala (Goulburn Murray) region is home to many talented artists – Kaiela Arts represents more than 80 of those artists and helps to share and support their work. Artists receive training and mentoring at the centre, and the work of many artists has been exhibited around the State, in some cases winning prestigious awards.
We offer an accessible studio and social space for local artists to connect, create and share art. The centre is a welcoming environment for everyone to learn about Aboriginal cultural arts.
We provide training and professional development opportunities for member artists at all levels, including exhibitions and collaborations with artists and non arts organisations outside the gallery.

We are active in promoting the South Eastern Australian Aboriginal linear art styles, which is traditional to the Aboriginal peoples of the Kaiela-Dungala region.
We provide employment and training for Aboriginal people both as staff and artists. There are many opportunities to connect with the wider community through events, exhibitions, projects and workshops.
Our Gallery and shop is a point of sale for the work of our artists, providing them with a channel to market their work, connect with their buyers and earn income. The gallery and shop provides locals and visitors with a place to acquire local Aboriginal art.
We educate the community about Aboriginal art and culture, through our in schools program – Galyan Manu, for students and teachers. We also offer workshops and cultural arts information sessions to the general public.
All artwork is produced locally by members of the Dungala Kaiela Aboriginal community and includes paintings, didgeridoos, woven baskets, woodwork, ceramics, clap sticks, boomerangs, jewellery,carved emu eggs and poker work and well as books, cards and textiles..

Our Vision
Kaiela Arts strives to facilitate opportunities for Aboriginal people in the
Kaiela-Dungala (Goulburn-Murray) Region to connect to culture through the arts; empowering future generations.

Our Mission:
Kaiela Arts enable Aboriginal artists in the Kaiela-Dungala (Goulburn-Murray) Region
To tell their stories through art and build pathways to professional excellence and recognition, connecting with and sharing culture across two worlds and further enabling the physical, spiritual and emotional wellbeing of the whole community.

Good Mornings Animations: Ngarigo

Shae Lui's Cooking Adventures
Not a chef. I don’t know much, just wing it a lot and share recipes for you to try out too!
Shae cooks Chicken Noodle Soup for when you're feeling unwell.

Filmed on location in Yirrkala North East Arnhem Land, NT.

Directed by Sam Brumby & King Stingray

Yo bukuwikama yurru yawirriny'nha yirrkalawuy dhiyaku maliwu.

The production would also like to thank Mangatjay Yunupiŋu, Malŋay Yunupiŋgu, Maciu Gentle, Glen Gentle, Dan Wagg, Stu Kellaway, Buku-larrŋgay Mulka Centre, The HOG Shed, GrantsNT.

Mother Rene and daughter Maureen are both passionate artists working at Minyma Kutjara Arts. Rene was one of the founding members of Irrunytju Artists. Her work draws on her extensive knowledge of Country and the important rock holes around her place of birth. A skilled bush woman Rene incorporates wood carving (punu), weaving with tjanpi (grass) and beadwork into a contemporary art practice.

Working in sculpture and on canvas, Maureen uses a strong, vibrant colour pallet to paint the landscapes of Pukurra, the Tali (sandhill) Country of her father and grandfather. Developing her own distinct painting style, Nelsons’ work is bold and colourful, depicting these significant landmarks.

IOP were gifted with the opportunity to listen, learn and explore the local landscape. We were especially honoured to be educated by the Elders about sacred dreamings of the land. From these teachings the students wrote about some of these dreamtime stories they learnt about in the lyrics of this song.

With a powerful chorus written in language it translates to:
'We love our home, we love this land
Walking together hand in hand
Culture is strong, culture is important'

The IOP Team would like to send a big thank you to all the elders, staff and youth of the community for coming together to make this video possible.

Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS) engaged Indigenous Outreach Projects to work alongside Gunbalanya School and the Community during their wet season.

NO SHAME | BE PROUD | RESPECT

Men and women from Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Northern Territory sing the “God Song” and perform dances of a Christian religious nature; at the Barunga Festival, 2018.

Another huge Storytelling week at Pika to cap off a big Term 3 for Tiwi College. People who call the Tiwi Islands home often find themselves spending time away from family, community and country. This song, written by Yello with students from Tiwi College, captures the essence of being way from and missing home but always carrying the sense of belonging and connection to country with you no matter where life takes you.

Yuendumu School and Red Dust present:
Head Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Warlpiri, English and Luritja.

Warlpiri:
Jurru, jimanta, mirdi, manu wirliya,
mirdi manu wirliya,
mirdi manu wirliya,
Jurru, jimanta, mirdi, manu wirliya,
Milpa, langa, lirra manu mirlyu.

English:
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes,
Knees and toes,
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

Luritja:
Kata, alpiri. murdi, jina,
murdi, jina,
murdi jina,
Kata, alpiri. murdi, jina,
Kuru, pina, jaa, mulya.

HSKT band features
Barna on vocals, 8 year old Jepaniah on drums and his dad on lead guitar!

Recorded, and produced at Yuendumu School by the Camp Dog Productions team (Wheeler, Steve and Wayne) for Red Dust, October 2021

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past - Footprince - Is the man guilty?

8 Karajarri Men venture on a road trip to Balgo to attend an important men's only meeting. Certain activities were conducted and discussed at this ceremonial gathering that are not shared in this video due to their sensitivity. The purpose of this episode is to share some of the beauty of the East Kimberley landscape and to share our reaction to a surprising discovery while at the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, which is traditionally known as Gandimalal.

Is child abuse 'rampant' in Central Australia? Catherine Liddle explains (English)

Arrernte women publish a deadly book of poems (Western Arrarnta, Pitjantjatjara subtitles)

Aboriginal girl students from Djarragun College near Cairns perform a traditional dance during the Girringun Festival in Cardwell. They perform, among others, the “Creation Dance”, depicting the creation of all animals and the gathering of traditional medicine to treat snake bite.

Return to Ngadju country with elder, Dorothy Dimer, and learn about kangaroos in the Ngajdu language.

8:30PM | Friday 28 May | Port Augusta Yacht Club
Melika Crombie is from Coober Pedy and has spent a lot of time learning from her dad, listening to him strumming on his old guitar. One day she started singing along and hasn’t turned back.

Umeewarra Downtown in Port Augusta 28 May 2021. Where the desert meets the sea. In collaboration with Adelaide Guitar Festival.

What next for the people of Ali Curung and their fight against the Singleton Station water licence? (English)

The many First Nation languages of WA need to be enshrined and protected under State legislation to ensure their continuation into the future.

Today, Monday 8 July 2024, a campaign commenced to bring the need for WA First Nations language legislation to the attention of the WA Premier, State Members of Parliament, and policy makers.


A call for the WA Aboriginal Languages Legislation Alliance (WAALLA) comes from the 2023 Aboriginal languages conference held in Kalgoorlie by the Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre (GALCAC). First Nations language speakers, workers and linguists at the conference called on the WA State Government to enact protective legislation similar to the legislation created in NSW, the Aboriginal Languages Act 2017.


Since European colonisation, WA’s First Nations languages have remained unrecognised and unsupported through State policy or legislation. This has led to the extinction of some of the State’s 85 languages, with many more being severely threatened unless systemic support and critical policy and legislation is enacted.


Language is identity, the mouth of culture, and the carrier of culture. To lose a language is like burning down a library; all that information and knowledge is gone forever. The First Nations languages of WA carry tens of thousands of years of knowledge and information about WA. They are State treasures.


Yawuru Elder, Professor Peter Yu, called for State legislation stating, ‘Language was, and always will be, about politics and power. Preserving language sustains the integrity of our native title rights and interests.’


The call for WA State Aboriginal language legislation includes the need for recognition of the First Nations languages as official languages of the State, the establishment of a WA Aboriginal languages trust, and the development of a State 10-year Aboriginal languages strategic plan.


WAALLA is a grassroots-led campaign which directly addresses Closing the Gap (CTG) priority reforms. The National Agreement on CTG states that the reforms, ‘…focus on measuring the way governments work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’.

The WAALLA Campaign is a clear voice to governments to work with WA’s First Nations language communities on State legislation.

Organisations are being urged to join the WAALLA campaign and call on the State Government for Aboriginal languages legislation.


For further information contact the WAALLA campaign managers Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre (08)9021 3788 or waalla@wangka.com.au
or check out the website www.wangka.com.au/waalla

Live at the 2009 KIPAS in Broome, Baamba & the Obamas sing their song "Town By The Bay.'

The 13th national Remote Media Festival presents this Traditional Inma Pulka, where the people from Amata, Fregon, Wingellina and Kenmore Park gathered together in Umuwa for a big Traditional dance ceremony.

A Spirit Women visits people camping out!

Fitzroy Express Live performance - CD LAUNCH "LITTLE BIT OF COUNTRY AND A LITTLE BIT OF ROCK & ROLL

Live music film clip from Keep Culture Festival 2013, Beagle Bay.

The making of a story about girls getting lost in the bush.

Fitzroy Xpress performing Home Sweet Home

Created over 5 days in August 2012, in partnership with Outback Arts and Walgett Shire Council. Walgett is a small town in northwest NSW, on the junction of the Namoi and Barwon rivers.

this song, written with young people from Walgett High School advocates awareness around local culture and social issues, acknowledging the bleak social history in Australian Indigenous communities, whilst challenging young people and local community members to create change for the future.

A special thanks to Roslyn McGregor for her ongoing support, her unwavering strength and her commitment to her people and their cultural identity.




Thanks to James Pike, Anne Dennis, Tanya Coelho, Rob Holden, Walgett Local Aboriginal Lands Council, Susan Lawrence, Outback Arts, Walgett Shire Council and the Walgett community.

We pay our respects to the Gamilaraay / Yuwaalaraay people - traditional owners of the country upon which this story was told.

*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that photographs/videos may contain images of deceased persons, which may cause sadness or distress.

Kerry Waistcoat talks about her experience camping out at a women's scared place and cooking kangaroo tails

This song sung in Pintibi is about the unusual floods that swept through Kiwirrkurra community in 2001.

The clip was filmed at nearby Lake Mackay and surrounding sites and audio was recorded by Desert Feet Tour at the community.

Marine turtle and dugong are priority species for the Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation's Uunguu Rangers as well as federal conservation management plans. A new way to monitor these populations has been developed by the project team using a boat-based methodology. The team consists of the Ranger group, the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd (NAILSMA) and CSIRO.

1. Elliot
2. Prayer - Greg Anderson, Betty Roberts, Robyn Payton
3. Elliot
4. Ngukurr
5. Kewulyi Kids
6. Kewulyi Gospel Band
7. Numbulwarr
8. Roderick and Gareth
9. Nungalinya
10. Manyalluluk
11. Jamison
12. Kalkaringi
13. Dallas James
14. Unity Group
15. Tennant Creek
16. Katherine Warlpiri
17. Lajamanu

Lorraine Peeters shares her story