Aboriginal Languages

Award-winning podcast brings alive Yuggera history and language

When Karina Hogan and Jenae Tien met while working at ABC Brisbane, they hit it off straight away despite their different backgrounds. Little did they know, a few years later their joint project Bloodlines to Country, a podcast on the language and cultural heritage of the Yuggera people, would be winning awards. In their podcast – …

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Language preservation critical for culture in First Nations communities

According to experts, only a fragment of 250 traditional First Nations languages from pre-colonial Australia are spoken in homes today, showing the priority to preserve both First Nations language and storytelling. Dr Debra Dank wrote ‘ We Come With This Place’ as part of her PhD thesis and explores how maintaining traditional storytelling is important …

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