News View all news Ngurra Architectural Design Competition Fri, 07 Jun 2024 Read more Ngurra: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Precinct Thu, 06 Jun 2024 A week of Celebrating Indigenous Brilliance: The 2024 AIATSIS Summit opens in Naarm (Melbourne) Mon, 03 Jun 2024 Strengthening Australian languages: between policy and practice Mon, 20 May 2024 Upcoming events View all events Indigenous Art Market 2024 Read more Australian Languages Workshop 2024 20 September 2024 to 22 September 2024 Paper and Talk 2024 14 October 2024 to 25 October 2024 Podcasts Listen, learn and be inspired by the stories of Australia’s First Peoples. Listen now Blogs View all blogs 'Treaty' by Yothu Yindi Fri, 12 Jul 2019 ‘Treaty' was a worldwide hit and the first song by a mainly Aboriginal band to peak on the ARIA singles chart. Read more Indigenous languages in Australian parliaments Wed, 18 Mar 2020 In 2016, Malcom Turnbull made history by being the first prime minister to speak an Australian Indigenous language in a parliamentary speech. Read more Reuniting a collection of Brinja community material Fri, 06 May 2022 An extraordinary collection of drawings, sketches, maps and diagrams was uncovered in one of our vaults during a sorting process. Read more Aboriginal English Fri, 18 Feb 2022 Over the years, many Indigenous people have been forced to speak Standard Australian English (AusE) at the expense of ancestral language, Kriol, or Aboriginal English (AbE). Read more