Our home page this week observes NAIDOC week in Australia, a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. This year’s theme is  'Honouring Our Elders, Nurturing Our Youth’ – encouraging communities to acknowledge the status of our Elders as leaders and role models.

Many of the titles on the home page were produced by CAAMA as part of the long running series, Nganampa Anwernekenhe, which means 'ours’ in the Pitjantjatjara and Arrernte languages. The main aim of the series is the maintenance of Aboriginal languages and culture. It is the only Aboriginal language program produced by and broadcast to Aboriginal people.

In Wirrangul Women: Always Have, Always Will (2006) Elders Doreen and Gladys are the last speakers of the Wirangu language. They must find a way to pass their language and tradition on to younger generations. It’s thought that when British colonisers arrived in 1788 there were about 270 indigenous languages. There are now only 18 languages that have more the 1,000 speakers.

australianscreen curator Romaine Moreton describes the film as 'the kind of documentary that needs to be made about all elders who are repositories of cultural knowledge and language’.