First Languages Australia and ABC Education are running an Aboriginal song competition for Australian and Torres Strait Islander schools and is one of several initiatives being undertaken to preserve and revive Indigenous languages.
Project officer at First Languages Australia, Annalee Pope, believes children hold the key to preserving Indigenous languages and that song is the best way to teach children about their importance.
Although reviving and preserving Indigenous languages is a mammoth task, demonstrating to children the full complexity of Aboriginal languages has been said to be a very good place to start.