When proud Ngarrindjeri and Wayilwan man Peter Mackay first enrolled in a TAFE language course in Warren, he did not know it would grow into a community movement, culminating in local Indigenous children writing and recording an album in Wayilwan language.
“I didn’t know a single word of the language when I started the course,” Mr Mackay said.
“Neither did my mother, my aunties or my uncles, because back in their day, if they were taught language, they risked being removed from their families…