National Indigenous Television
The NITV television channel (the National Indigenous Television channel) is well patronised and contributes to social and cultural debates from the First Nations people’s perspective. The various programs foster a sense of community. Their articles on the website often use lexis that are unique to Aboriginal English in order to consolidate cultural bonds. (Lexicology) For example, there are numerous references to “mob”; their football show, “Yokayi” (referring to a Noongar war cry), is the “deadliest” on television (unique intensifier).
There are Aboriginal English spokespeople frequently interviewed on Radio National.
The Miles Franklin Award 2020
Tara June Winch won the Miles Franklin Award 2020 with the The Yield . She says, “We’re going to see our mob on award lists together, because we’re publishing more and publishing at such a quality level.”
In her reclamation of the language (a Wiradjuri dictionary is embedded into the novel) Ms Winch writes about a woman named August and her return home for the burial of her grandfather, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi.