My name's Linda Burney and I'm from south western New South Wales.
I'm a member of the Wiradjuri nation and we
have a huge land area, the Wiradjuri.
It covers the Lachlan, the MacQuarie and the Murrumbidgee Rivers.
Of course we know in our culture that land and country and 
language are so fundamental to who we are and how we see ourselves.
And I think that one of the unwritten tragedies and it's a tragedy 
that's been happening as we make this film clip, and that is the 
destruction or the neglect of protecting Aboriginal languages.
There are only something like 50 or 60 viable languages left out of
600 or 700 languages and it is something that I cannot understand, 
how linguists and universities and governments and education systems
and the Australian population is allowing the original languages of 
Australia to die, and die surely.