Gloria Panka is the granddaughter of the famous watercolour artist Albert Namatjira (deceased), who was awarded a coronation medal from Queen Elizabeth in 1953 for his extraordinary talent. Gloria and her grandfather Albert come from the mission Ntaria also known as …
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 …
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 …
One day, right before her 14th birthday, Joy Wandin Murphy woke up with a bad feeling. She refused to go to school. She had an unshakeable sense of dread that something was going to happen to her father. Joy was eventually permitted to stay home, and her father passed away that …
'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 …
First Languages Australia short with Ruth James, Shaniah Thomason, Robert Mitchell, and Deborah Sandy speaking about the Yugara-Yugarapul language.
First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the …
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.
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