Language documentation

Strengthening Australian languages: between policy and practice: 2022 Language Policy Symposium

Prior to colonisation, hundreds of Indigenous languages were spoken in Australia.

Ancestors' words: Noongar writing in WA government archives (1860-1960s)

This project aims to produce the first account of Noongar letter writing in Western Australian archives from 1860 to 1960.

Noongar kaatdijin bidi: Noongar knowledge networks; or, Why is there no Noongar Wikipedia?

Our main achievement is the Noongarpedia incubator site, currently featuring 680 entries, for a planned Noongar-language version of Wikipedia, with community-developed content and Wikimedia-appropr

Vitality and change in Warlpiri songs at Yuendumu

Vitality and change in Warlpiri songs at Yuendumu.

Re-integrating Central Australian community cultural collections

This project has digitised 17,564 files of legacy images, audio and video (5.92TB) in the Central Land Council (CLC) region of the Northern Territory pertaining to Indigenous people, their cultural

In the Time of Their Lives. Wangka kutjupa-kutjuparringu: How talk has changed in the Western Desert

The Western Desert Verbal Arts Collection is a unique compilation of audio-visual recordings of the oral traditions and endangered speech styles of the Ngaanyatjarra, Ngaatjatjarra and Pitjantjatja

Aboriginal remote narrowcast TV and the audio-visual archive

This project aims to investigate the world’s best practices in community narrowcast digital TV and contemporary methods for the long-term storage of both digital and analogue audio-visual cultural

Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages Project

A digital archive of endangered literature in more than 16 Australian Indigenous languages will be built in collaboration with the communities which own the languages, thereby enabling researchers

Breaking the silence - AI for Deaf mob

Introduction

In Australia, Deaf and hard-of-hearing Aboriginal people face significant communication barriers, especially in legal and healthcare settings.

Hearing histories of the western Pilbara: An interdisciplinary study of Indigenous songs composed in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in the twentieth century and technologies to sustain them into the future

This project aims to investigate Indigenous song traditions of the western Pilbara through current practice and legacy recordings.