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'This is a story about fishing methods in beautiful Bardi Jawi country on the Dampier Peninsula, in the West Kimberley. The local language is Bardi.' (Introduction)

'During NAIDOC week this year, ABC Open Producer Jeff Licence spent a day in Ballina on the NSW North Coast connecting with indigenous language teacher Rick Cook, the Bundjalung language and the local community.'  (Introduction)

'The road to Cabbage Tree Island snakes up through cane fields hidden amongst the floodplain of the Richmond River, a few kilometres inland from Wardell and Ballina on the NSW North Coast.'  (Introduction)

'Larry Blight is a Menang Noongar man, and a lecturer in conservation and land management at the Great Southern Institute of Technology.

'In this video Larry takes us on a tour of the old Kalgan Hall site, the oldest site on Western Australia's south coast. '  (Introduction)

'For over forty years, Gunggari woman Ethel Munn has held as a treasure amongst her belongings a booklet of songs which she believes faithfully record the language and music of her people in the Maranoa area of south west Queensland.'   (Introduction)

'There are several Arandic languages in Central Australia . At Sadadeen Primary school in Alice Springs we learnt different words in Central Arrernte and Western Arrernte dialects about various body parts. When ABC Open producer, Charmaine Ingram, visited us, we decided to film each other on iPads and the Cannon 7D to produce this video.' (Introduction)

'The group of Yolngu Matha dialects are more than just a set of languages. They can be seen as a way of life that connects people to their culture, their country and all living things. Language champions Matjarra Garrawurra, Dhangal Gurrawiwi, Michael Christie and Melanie Wilkinson tell stories about the complex layers of Yolngu Matha language from NE Arnhemland in the Northern Territory.'  (Introduction)

'Walmajarri country is in the Great Sandy Desert, south of the Fitzroy Valley. It is just one of many language groups from this desert region.

'Jesse Moora is a Walmajarri woman who lives in the Yakanarra community, a couple of hours south of Fitzroy Crossing. Her family was one of the first to settle at Yakanarra 25 years ago. Jesse and some of the other new arrivals brought a lot of kids with them, so they set up a school in a shed. She has been teaching Walmajarri to the children there for 24 years.' (Introduction)

'Community cultural leader Matthew Priestley invited filmmakers from Black Wattle productions to work with students at Moree East Public School in the production of this connection song that welcomes people to Gamillaroi Land in traditional language.'  (Introduction)

'A Welcome to Country from three generations of Wiradjuri women.'

'Joy Bonner of Hervey Bay gives us a lesson in the Butchulla language the first language of that region. Joy is a community linguist at K’Gari Educational & Culture Centre.'  (Introduction)