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Across Australia, from Dhurga (south-east coast, NSW) to Warlpiri (Yuendumu, NT) to Gija (East Kimberley), languages are being strengthened by the publication of First Nations dictionaries. The AIATSIS Dictionaries project has seen an explosion of nearly 20 dictionaries published in the last few years.

Across the remote communities of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) and Maralinga Tjarutja (MT) Lands, an intergenerational cultural transmission project is under way to save languages and stories from dying out.

Actor David Gulpilil has won this year’s Red Ochre Award, Australia’s highest peer-assessed award for an Indigenous artist.

Actress Leah Purcell remembers the first day school finally made sense to her. She had written a story for her Year 7 teacher and it came back covered in red ink with a big “See Me” scrawled across the page.