Languages

Neil Morris aka DRMNGNOW shares three Yort Yorta words —  including one that demonstrates the connection Yorta Yorta mob have between goodness and beauty.

Kayardild is the language from Bentinck Island in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria.

Paul Ah Chee shares three words from his maternal grandmother's language — Yankuntjatjara.

Kaelene McMillan shares three Adnyamathna words, including the word for 'rainbow'.

Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs is an educator, a writer and an important voice for Yolngu in north-east Arnhem Land. She's sharing a word she likes to teach her students at Yirrkala School.

Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs is an educator, a writer and an important voice for Yolngu in north-east Arnhem Land. Merrki has chosen a word that means 'two waters coming together'. For her, the word holds a deeper meaning. 

With access to precious cultural and linguistic knowledge on country for the first time, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies has expanded its reach outside Canberra.

Australian voices really aren't what they used to be. Linguists and ABC presenters weigh in on the changes to Aussie voices and the death of the ABC accent.

A clue on the classroom wall helped one student find a long-lost relative, and the same room helped another trace her ancestry. The Cooinda room at Henry Kendall High School on the Central Coast of NSW isn't your average classroom.

The vibrant handprint display tells hundreds of unique stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture and unites some of the country's most respected Indigenous trailblazers.

Housing is a hot mess in many remote Aboriginal communities,  including Tennant Creek, and the rollercoaster of government policies and interventions hasn't helped the situation.

The sun's going down and the sky is getting dark...  It's time for a lullaby to drift off to sleep. Let's head to Gumbaynggirr Country for a littler yarn with Troy Cassar-Daley about his new lullaby 'Ninganah'...

Uncle Peter Salmon is the last remaining native speaker of the First Nations language from the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.

The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia says its lawyers are paid up to $42,000 a year less than they would at Legal Aid WA, making attraction and retention difficult.