It’s story time at the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy school in Hopevale and Aunty Irene Hammett is armed with her Guugu Yimidhirr language books. She wrote them based on her and her family’s childhoods. They tell tales of adventures on country - through the bush, …

Iwaidja speakers are working together with school teachers and linguists from the University of Western Sydney, the Université de Paris and the ARDS Aboriginal Corporation, Darwin, to get more children on Croker Island to speak Iwaidja. Here, children from Mamaruni School …

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

'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 …

Parts of the body in Butchulla

First Languages Australia short with Vanessa Ferrelly speaking about the Pertame 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 …

Peggy Patrick speaks about the importance of Gija language and its uncertain future. Filmed at Warmun Art Centre, Warmun Community April 2015 to promote the Gija Language and Culture Classes Pozible fundraising campaign. To donate go to pozi.be/gijalanguageclasses or …

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 …