Before colonisation, many hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages thrived across Australia. Now, just over a dozen are learned as a first language. Estimates of exactly how many ...

ABC's new portal for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Indigenous portal replaces and upgrades the pre-existing Message Stick gateway. It was developed in consultation with the ABC's ...

Smartphones almost “tipped the scales out of whack” when it came to keeping local Central Australian languages alive, one ...

COFFS HARBOUR, Australia, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Whirling barefoot in a sand circle, Clark Webb leads a class of school children as they dance to clapsticks and the songs of the Gumbaynggirr, an ...

Every Aboriginal language in NSW is classified as critically endangered Aboriginal children were removed from their families for speaking Aboriginal language NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister says ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains images and voices of people who have died. Mikayla Helms remembers driving 1,000 kilometres during school holidays to ...

Of the original 250-plus languages and over 750 dialects spoken by First Nations peoples before 1788, only 12 are being learned by children today. However, widely spoken contact languages – creoles ...

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The new coin was released today. IN CELEBRATION of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, the Australian Mint has released a 50 cent coin decorated in 14 different Aboriginal Australian words ...

The act representing Australia at this year’s Eurovision contest has sadly not qualified for the grand final. Yet for Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross, the duo that makes up Electric Fields, it’s ...