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Are plants talking to each other?

Plants communicate through their roots and can even create and respond to sounds. Experts are now asking – can they think, too?

Plants communicate through their network of roots and can even create and respond to sounds. But experts are now asking – can they think, too?

How did “G’day mate” become the sound of home for millions of people?

Join us as we continue the age-old search to name groups of things.

Borrowing heavily from popular culture, these new words have made it into the Macquarie Dictionary for 2010.

Mapping more than 250 traditional tongues from across Australia was not an easy feat.

An incredible project aims to revive more than 250 languages once spoken across Australia.

A language spoken by Aboriginal children in a remote part of central Australia has a “radically innovative” structure.

Do you know the ridiculous term for a group of jellyfish? Find out here.

From Cornstalks to Banana-benders, Aussies even have lingo for each other.