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BIYAL BIYAL Australian National Anthem - updated
How did this translation come about? An Aboriginal singer-songwriter acquaintance sent an email inviting Your Amateur Researcher (YAR) to...
Jeremy Steele
Apr 17, 20247 min read
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Yarrangobilly
Yarrangobilly is in the Snowy Mountains, about 40 km west from the southern portion of the ACT. This places it in Ngarigo country....
Jeremy Steele
Dec 15, 20114 min read
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Merimbula
A personal diary entry from January 1984 has the record: “Later we all set off by car headed for Twofold Bay150 km away approx. Did this...
Jeremy Steele
Jul 31, 20112 min read
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NSW COAST Words: calling cooee
Everyone knows the bush call ‘cooee’. Not so many know that it is an Indigenous word, and that it means ‘come’. It was recorded by...
Jeremy Steele
Sep 21, 20102 min read
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DHARAWAL Words: tackling the unijerunbi minku? puzzle
On page 101 of the Rev. William Ridley's Kamilaroi and Other Languages (KAOL)* the following occurs in a list of 21 Dharawal words or...
Jeremy Steele
Sep 12, 20103 min read
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DHARAWAL Words: mosquito
The Rev. William Ridley (1819-1878) wrote an article, ‘Australian languages and traditions’ (AL&T), published in the February 1878 issue...
Jeremy Steele
Sep 6, 20102 min read
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