Word Up

Barkindji plant knowledge holder, artist and health worker David Doyle shares a word that means 'many waters'.

David Doyle is a plant knowledge holder, an artist and a health worker living in Broken Hill, and this week we head back to Barkindji Country to learn the word for a very special person.

David Doyle is a  Barkindji/Malyangapa artist, plant knowledge holder and health worker.

For Word Up he shares the Barkindji name for Murray Cod.

Kylie Bracknell shares the Noongar word for 'older brother'.

Noognar language legend and Word Up boomerang Kylie Bracknell shares some more language that means something special to her.

This week she discusses the Noongar word for someone of renown.

Writer, actor and language champion Kylie Bracknell returns to reflect on a Noongar word for "watching together".

Kylie Bracknell is a fierce Noongar language advocate and long-time friend of Word Up.

This week, Kylie returns to share a very special Noongar compound word celebrating song and dance.

Kylie Bracknell is a Noongar woman and language champion.

In 2016 Kylie was Word Up’s inaugural guest.

Now, she returns to share a Noongar word that has a special significance — ‘ancestor’.

Kaurna artist James Tylor explains why he loves using his mob’s word for ‘deadly’.

This week, artist James Tylor returns to share another piece of Kaurna language.

It's a compound word, a combination of the Kaurna words for water (kauwi) and brushtail possum (pirlta) — kauwirlta.