In the desert, water is mostly found below ground. Any surface water quickly dries up in the heat, but underground water remains available in waterholes and rockholes. Aboriginal people of the inland differentiate between permanent water, called living water, and seasonal water …

For tens of thousands of years, the rich and beautiful sounds of thousands of languages washed across this earth. Over all of Australia it is believed there were more than five hundred at one time. Around two hundred years ago, a new language began to replace them, sweeping …

First Languages Australia short with Jacqui Blackman speaking Yidingi. 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.

That's Australia Series 2 – EP 5 Margo's Story. A group of Aboriginal people walked out of the desert in 1971 and the first white woman they saw was Margo Baker. Being a keen photographer Margo has a remarkable collection of slides which document her early years in the bush. …

That's Australia Series 1 – EP 24 Kimberley Rock Art Amidst the remote and inhospitable landscape of the North Kimberley coast lays the distinctive style of ancient rock art known as the Bradshaw Paintings. But what do the locals have to say about these Paintings created by …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

First Languages Australia short with Edie Maher speaking Wajarri. 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.

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.

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/

First Languages Australia short with Hiroko Shioji speaking Yawuru. 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.

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.

Known as the Aboriginal Geronimo, Jandamarra held police at bay for years preventing pastoralists from occupying rich pastures of the Kimberley. Today he is regarded as a folk hero and stories abound of his superhuman abilities.

First Languages Australia short with Maritza Roberts speaking Marra. 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.

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.

First Languages Australia short with Nora Cooke speaking Ngarla. 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.

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.

First Languages Australia short with Godfrey Simpson speaking Wajarri. 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.