Best Aboriginal Language Podcasts (2025)

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NITV News: May 1, 2025 8:53

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Catch up on whats making news for Thursday 1st May 2025.

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Echoes of Movement: How the Grammar of Indigenous Languages Maps the Peopling of the Americas

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By the time Europeans arrived in the Americas, thousands of distinct Indigenous languages had already shaped the way people described landscapes, kinship, time, and the cosmos. These languages, many of which still survive today, are more than means of communication—they are archaeological strata encoded in speech. A new study in Scientific Reports1…

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When the Music Stops: What the Absence of Lullabies and Dance Among the Aché Tells Us About Human Culture

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The Silence of the Forest In the humid forests of eastern Paraguay, where the tall canopies hush the chatter of insects and wind, researchers have observed something unexpected: a society that lives without song and dance. Not entirely without music—but without two particular forms long thought universal among humans—lullabies and communal dancing.…

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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

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At first glance, the animal figures painted on rock shelters in the northeast Kimberley look deceptively simple—thin outlines of kangaroos, some barely adorned, others stylized into abstract form. For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period…

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NITV News: April 30, 2025 8:58

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Catch up on all the latest Indigenous News from our NITV News team.

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NITV Radio - On Air Program 30/04/2025 40:31

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NITV Radio brings stories from across the country celebrating excellence and sharing whats happening in communities.

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NITV Radio News - 30/04/2025 7:54

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U.S President Donald Trump has softened the blow of his auto tariffs. Pressure is mounting on major parties to deliver cost-of-living and housing relief. And - in tennis, dual grand slam doubles champion Max Purcell accepts an 18-month ban

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First Nations Election Wrap: Week Five 13:50

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Join NITV Radio's Kerri-Lee and special guest former ABC Radio host Jon Faine as they get stuck into week five of the election campaign.

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Hunter-Gatherers at the Edge of the Ice: Tracing the Ahrensburgian in Scotland’s Far Northwest

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When the last Ice Age released its grip on northern Europe, vast landscapes emerged from the ice. Among them was a rugged, newly exposed frontier—the British Isles. While the southern lowlands began to host reindeer hunters and mobile foragers, the highlands and islands of Scotland remained largely uncharted in the archaeological record. Until now.…

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NITV News: April 29, 2025 8:35

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Catch up on all the latest Indigenous News from our NITV News team.

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Sewing Survival: How Ice Age Hunters Mastered Winter with Reindeer Fur

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During the coldest chapter of the Ice Age, when average temperatures in parts of Europe hovered below freezing year-round, survival demanded more than keen hunting skills. It required ingenuity, strategy—and good clothing. Reindeer fur would have helped ancient humans endure the climate of the last glacial maximum Esteban De Armas/Shutterstock At t…

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Homeland in Ngalia 9:25

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We're off to red desert Country in Western Australia to meet up with our friend Kado Muir. We'll hear from some noisy locals, discover water in surprising places and listen to the sounds of Kado's Ngalia homeland.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Yeast in the Trees: How a Tiny Organism Traces the Footsteps of Ancient Humans

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The Forgotten Migrant When thinking about humanity’s migrations across continents, yeast is probably the last traveler that comes to mind. Yet new research led by Jacqueline Peña and her colleagues at the University of Georgia has revealed that wild strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae—the same species that leavens bread and ferments wine—carry sile…

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Secret D-Day rehearsal and YouTube begins 51:32

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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is World War Two military historian and archivist Elisabeth Shipton. We start by concentrating on two events from the last year of the Second World War. Exercise Tiger took place in April 1944 in preparation for the D-Day landings of All…

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Bearing the Weight of History

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The Forgotten Burden In the sun-drenched valleys of Bronze Age Nubia—modern-day Sudan—women moved through the rural landscape with baskets balanced on their heads and tumplines wrapped tightly around their foreheads. These were not symbolic acts of endurance. They were survival. More than 3,500 years later, the imprint of that daily labor is still …

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First Nations Weekly Election Wrap: Week Four 20:27

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Join NITV Radio's Kerri-Lee and special guest former ABC Radio host Jon Faine as they get stuck into week four of the election campaign. As early voting starts this week and there's only 9 days left before polling day we take a look at the campaign so far. Jon Faine brings us up to date on the past week and then lets look at what is still to happen…

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NITV News: April 24, 2025 9:00

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Catch up on all the latest Indigenous News from our NITV News team.

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Ashes to Acres

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Farming After the Fire The Neolithic Revolution has long been framed as a triumph of human ingenuity—the dawn of agriculture, of domestic animals, of sedentary villages. But what if this turning point wasn’t planned at all? What if it began as an act of survival? Remains of a large Neolithic settlement on alluvial soil in the Motza Valley. Credit: …

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Clay and Shell in the Gobi Wind

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Life After the Ice The windswept floor of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert doesn’t readily reveal its secrets. But beneath its cracked sediment and the shifting shoreline of long-vanished lakes, archaeologists are beginning to piece together a story not just of survival—but of deep cultural adaptation. Pottery from FV 139 B - bottom of layer 1 (0–10 cm). Cre…

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NITV Radio - On Air Program 23/04/2025 46:51

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NITV Radio brings stories from across the country celebrating excellence and sharing whats happening in communities.

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NITV Radio News - 23/04/2025 10:19

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The Coalition vows to increase defence spending if it wins the Federal Election - Indigenous leaders are reacting to the death of Pope Francis - And, in the AFL, Todd Goldstein to step up for Essendon in the blockbuster game on ANZAC Day.

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NITV News: April 23, 2025 9:10

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Catch up on all the latest Indigenous News from our NITV News team.

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S03-E31: The man behind the force that is IndigenousX 21:09

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Send us a text For nearly 15 years, IndigenousX has been “stirring the pot” as a niche and fearless Blak media outlet. In this episode I catch up with it’s CEO and founder, Luke Pearson.By Victorian Aboriginal News

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Land in Ngarrindjeri 9:19

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We're back on Ngarrindjeri Country with Katie! Let's listen to the sounds of the Coorong, yarn about Country and get your plombi ready - she's going to teach us another song!By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The Myth of Neolithic Monarchs

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Tombs Without Thrones High on the grassy ridgelines of Neolithic Ireland, where fog slips across stone like whispered memory, early farmers raised monuments that still loom over the living. Passage tombs like Newgrange and Knowth, older than the pyramids, have long been cast as the burial vaults of prehistoric kings and queens. But new genetic evid…

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Climate, Chaos, and Cooperation: How Shifting Environments May Have Forged Early Human Solidarity

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In the vast timeline of human evolution, one question has nagged at researchers more than most: how did cooperation, a risky and often costly behavior, come to define Homo sapiens? A recent study out of the University of Tsukuba offers an unexpected answer. It wasn't stability, safety, or predictability that shaped our social instincts—it was the o…

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The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and World Book Day 51:10

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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. It’s 50 years since soldiers of the communist Khmer Rouge party stormed into the capital, Phnom Penh. It was the start of a four year reign of terror which resulted in up to two million people being killed. We hear two stories from people affected…

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A Face in the Rock: Tracing Early Human Symbolism in the South Caucasus

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In a limestone cavern carved into the flanks of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, archaeologists recently recovered an object no larger than a matchstick—yet carrying profound implications. Found amid layers of Mesolithic debris in Damjili Cave, Azerbaijan, this human figurine—crafted from sandstone with a striped belt and stylized coiffure—offers a r…

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The Marsh Ambush: What a 300,000-Year-Old Horse Hunt Reveals About Early Human Cooperation

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The Marsh Ambush: What a 300,000-Year-Old Horse Hunt Reveals About Early Human Cooperation A horse bone bed in northern Germany offers rare insight into the minds and methods of pre-modern humans—and how deep the roots of social intelligence may go. On the edge of a shallow lake in what is now Lower Saxony, Germany, a group of hunters closed in on …

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Dr Paola Balla is taking over for Blak Women's Healing at Yirramboi 10:14

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“Bush-dyeing is a laborious and involved learning process which I find soothing. Deep listening and being present is critical to this work. It is repetitive, meditative and holds all of the attributes of mindfulness practice,” says Balla.

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NITV Radio Full - 18/04/2025 41:50

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With hundreds of thousands of people expected to attend the Sydney Royal Easter Show Indigenous Bush food company is hoping to entice the taste buds with native foods.

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NITV Radio News 18/04/2025 9:11

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Extensive coral bleaching has been confirmed of Australia's Great Barrier Reef says a Joint study.

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Empire in a Shell: How Iron Age Craftspeople on the Carmel Coast Turned Snails into Royal Power

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At first glance, Tel Shiqmona appears unassuming—a rocky outcrop overlooking the Mediterranean just south of modern-day Haifa. But beneath its surface, archaeologists have found what may be the most robust evidence yet of a long-standing, industrial-scale dye production facility operating between 1100 and 600 BCE. Not for clay, copper, or olive oil…

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The Last Feast of the Bustards: Ritual, Memory, and the Decline of a Giant Bird

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In the shadows of the Beni-Snassen Mountains, tucked into a cave called Taforalt, archaeologists have been piecing together an unexpected story about the rituals of late Pleistocene humans. Not just about who they buried—but what they buried with them. Among the artifacts and bones of those interred are the carefully butchered remains of Otis tarda…

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NITV News: April 17, 2025 10:05

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Catch up on all the latest Indigenous News from our NITV News team.

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When the Sky Burned: How a Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Tilted the Fate of Early Humans

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Roughly 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field—our planet’s protective shield—flickered and faltered. The magnetic poles drifted from their usual places, the field weakened to a tenth of its modern strength, and aurorae flared over continents that rarely see them. This episode, known as the Laschamps excursion, did not just create celestial firew…

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Farming Inequality: How Ancient Land Use Split Societies

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For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. It shaped who got rich, who stayed poor, and how power was passed on across generations. A new study published in Proceedings of…

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NITV News: April 16, 2025 9:25

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Catch up on all the latest Indigenous News from our NITV News team.

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Inequality, Endurance, and the Shape of Human Settlements

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In the long arc of human history, what makes a settlement persist? Fresh water, fertile land, favorable climate—these are obvious candidates. But a recent study suggests another, less intuitive pattern: the most enduring settlements tended to be those with stark differences in wealth. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1, t…

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First Nations Election Wrap: Week three 13:28

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Join NITV Radio's Kerri-Lee and special guest former ABC Radio host Jon Faine as they get stuck into week three of the election campaign.

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S03-E30: Shining the light on Australian indigenous entrepreneurship 21:33

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Send us a text In this episode I catch up with Professor Dennis Foley, a descendent of the Gai-mariagal people, and Australia’s first professor of indigenous entrepreneurship. He speaks openly about the important cultural context of this subject as well as calling out key changes that need to be implemented in order for Blak businesses to be given …

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NITV News: April 15, 2025 8:54

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Catch up on all the latest Indigenous News from our NITV News team.

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NITV Radio - On Air Program 14/04/2025 44:34

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News, stories and conversations from across the country.

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NITV Radio - News 14/04/2025 8:00

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Housing policies launched by major parties questioned by economists - A class action lawsuit filed against Bupa aged care homes - And, in sports Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel wins the Paris-Roubaix race for the third-straight year.

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Bonus: Defeated 49:47

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8th May 1945 was a day of rejoicing in Britain, the US and many other countries: Germany had surrendered, and World War II was over, at least in Europe. Yet it was not a day of celebration for everyone: for the vanquished Germans, it marked the end of bombings and of Nazi rule. But it was also a time of deprivation and chaos, fear and soul-searchin…

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NITV News: April 14, 2025 4:36

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Catch up on all the latest Indigenous News from our NITV News team.

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Black swan in Ngarrindjeri 9:40

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We're heading to the coast of South Australia to Ngarrindjeri Country to meet our friend Katie! She's going to introduce us to the wonderful waters of her lands and to a very special bird that calls them home...By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Nazis and sex strikes 50:57

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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Katrin Paehler, Professor of modern European history at Illinois State University. First, a journalist describes how he accompanied Hitler through the embers of the Reichstag fire in 1933. Then, the harrowing recollections of a doc…