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 …

Mother Tongue series: Wangkatja tracking and bush stories

First Languages Australia short with Steven Coghill speaking about the Yuggera 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 …

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

Since the beginning of 2017, Aboriginal students at Eden Public School, on the far south coast of New South Wales, have been learning the language of their elders. It is the culmination of a painstaking language revitalisation project that began more than 10 years ago. In …

First Languages Australia short with Thelma Coleman speaking about the Bayali language. 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 …

'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 …

'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. Melinda Holden …