The interactive Gambay map from First Languages Australia showcases more than 700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. It has accompanying videos and teacher notes, and it's a ...

Students whose first language was Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander can deepen their knowledge of that tongue as part of the curriculum for the first time.

Aboriginal people in the far west have told the state government they need more language and cultural education and better targeted services. The New South Wales Minister for Aboriginal Affairs ...

Norman Tindale's 1940 map of Aboriginal language groups across the continent. He published another map in 1974. Credit: Tindale, Norman B. (Norman Barnett), 1900-1993.

NSW is home to over 35 Aboriginal language groups and 100 dialect variations. In 2016, the estimated resident population of Aboriginal people in the state was 265,685, ...

However, a new app called Yarning is breaking down language barriers and fostering better interactions between Aboriginal communities and the state’s police officers. Yarning allows officers to select ...

Tasmania’s Aboriginal languages were decimated during the state’s colonial violence. But members of the original community have reconstructed a language, palawa kani, which is now being used ...

One of Australia’s biggest Aboriginal language groups, Noongar (spoken in Western Australia’s south-west) is set to be preserved with the creation of an Aboriginal online encyclopaedia.