Carol Robertson has just published her first ever kids’ book, a picture book called Stori bla Brutbrut en Bujigat (Story about Mouse and Cat), published by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Carol is no stranger to creating books for Kriol speakers. She played an important role in the creation of the Kriol Baibul (Kriol Bible), checking …
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In Northern Australia, as many as 1 in 10 Aboriginal people carry the Hepatitis B virus and for many people it can become serious and even cause liver failure or liver cancer. Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin has created an interactive app, called the Hep B Story, to help people in remote communities …
Carol Robertson, at 65 years of age, has lived a long, full life in the remote community of Ngukurr in Southern Arnhem Land. A community leader and matriarch with 6 children, 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild, Carol has, among other things, helped to translate the bible into Kriol, been a long-term local church leader and …
Since 1925, World Animal Day has been helping raise awareness for animal rights and welfare every year on October 4. This year, two new educational videos in Kriol have been released on World Animal Day to promote two important causes affecting remote communities and the animals around us. Ola Beibiwan Enimul garra Jidan la Bush …
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If you grew up speaking English, you would have learned our ‘Now I know my ABC’ alphabet song at a young age and never forgot it. It might be hard to imagine, but lots of languages don’t have a song like that at all! Well, that’s now changed for Kriol speakers who have a new …
The results of the 2021 Census have recently been released and data about Kriol shows it to be a growing language. Read on for more details on what the 2021 Census tells us about Kriol. (You can find all this info and more on the SBS Census Explorer: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/creative/census-explorer/). How many Kriol speakers are there? …
With huge thanks to Ned Lander Media, the two Kriol episodes of award-winning kids cartoon Little J & Big Cuz that we helped create in 2021 are now freely available on our YouTube page! Since holding a “world premiere” screening in Ngukurr in late 2021, the episodes have been watched many times over in Ngukurr …
If you’ve never seen a cartoon in Kriol before, that’s all about to change! Ngukurr School and Meigim Kriol Strongbala have just teamed up to present a “world premiere” screening of Little J & Big Cuz in Kriol. And it was a smash hit! After months of work to translate, record and produce two brand …
There are lots of stories around about children who got sent to Don Dale being treated badly there. Don Dale is a Youth Detention centre in Darwin, run by the Northern Territory Government. Eventually, lawyers who heard these stories went to court and argued to judges that the Northern Territory Government was breaking the law …
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If you’ve never met Little J & Big Cuz before, they are a couple of Aboriginal kids aged 5 and 9 living with their Nanna and Old Dog. They’ve been turning up on screens in cartoon form on ABC, SBS and NITV since 2017, having all kinds of adventures at school, in their community and …