AWAYE! - Full program podcast
AWAYE! - Full program podcast
ABC Australia
The shifting landscape of Indigenous languages
48 minutes Posted Feb 21, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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Show notes
This International Mother Language Day, we chat with a Wiradjuri language champion about his linguistic revival work in schools.
Then Awaye reflects on the loss of fierce advocate and poet Uncle Lionel Fogarty.
Plus for Word Up,  Walmajarri, Gooniyandi and Bunuba Elder Kankawa Nagarra takes you on a trip to the Kimberley. 
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners should be advised this episode includes the name and the voice of a person who has died.