The Mount Druitt Indigenous choir joins five-hundred primary school students from across Sydney in song for the Survival Day 2016 event at Sydney Harbour. The Mount Druitt Indigenous choir joins ...

Ten-year-old Shonelle Clarke lowers her head in thought before she softly replies: "Aboriginals were here first, but now kids like me don't really know what Aboriginal is." This, she explains, is why ...

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Dharug, the first language of the Sydney Basin area, was largely lost after colonisation. But now it is among the Aboriginal languages being taught at 16 NSW public preschools across the state.

A high school in Western Sydney says its Aboriginal language program has lifted results and boosted the attendance rates of Indigenous students. Students at Chifley College are learning the Dharug ...

Newer building named Naala Badu, meaning ‘seeing waters’ in the Dharug language, while older building named Naala Nura, or ‘seeing country’ More than a year after it opened to the public, the $344m ...

Dharug was one of the dominant Aboriginal dialects in the Sydney region when British settlers arrived in 1788, but became extinct under the weight of colonization. Details of its demise are sketchy ...

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare announced $11m in grants on Thursday for 26 language projects in more than 40 communities through the First Nations Languages Education Program. Some of the ...

Dance has always been in Peta Strachan. The Dharug woman has been dancing for more than three decades, including a stint in the renowned Bangarra Dance Theatre. At its heart dance is about culture to ...

The sounds of a lost language echo across a packed classroom in suburban Sydney as high school children help to revive an ancient part of Australia's rich indigenous culture. Dharug was one of the ...