Endangered Aboriginal languages have been reinvigorated with a collaborative music project, writes Andrew Bock.

THE centrality of song in Aboriginal culture is often overlooked.

In traditional Aboriginal culture, story is first enacted by song - it precedes both painting and dancing - and the custodians or ''song people'' are accordingly perplexed by the popularity of painting.

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