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Creation Story

All over Australia, Dreaming stories tell of the ancestor spirits who created the land and everything on it. This story, from the Ngiyaampaa of western…

Creation Story

The Rainbow Serpent

The Rainbow Serpent Story At the beginning of the Dreamtime, the earth was flat and dry and empty. There were no trees, no rivers, no animals and no grass. It was a…

The Rainbow Serpent

Emu and the Jabiru


Once at a place called Nurrurrumba lived a person called Gandji and his children, and a man call Wurrpan, with his children. The men were…

Emu and the Jabiru

Tiddalick the Frog

Tiddalick the FrogOnce upon a time, a long time ago, in the Dreamtime, lived a frog called Tiddalick. One very warm morning, he woke up feeling…

Tiddalick the Frog